A survey by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) shows that criminality among the country’s youth is becoming gender-equal, with the same number of girls as boys admitting to committing crimes.
In a survey of ninth-graders (15-year-olds) in 400 primary schools across the country, over half of the students—51.3%— admitted to criminal activity in the past year. The reported criminal activity includes violence, theft, threats, robberies, vandalism, drug crimes, and sexual crimes. The number of criminal boys is only one percentage point above that of girls.
