Against gang crime, crime and social unrest is school and social services important preventive and rehabilitative efforts as well as police and prison important repressive efforts important parts. But even more important is to offer good works to everyone with long-term employment and good wages. Arbete is historically one of Sweden's most effective integration and order-creating factors.
Unemployment also appears to lead to mental illness incl.apga deteriorating economy. These unemployed people studied also considered self-sufficiency to be an important goal. But more jobs must be created so that everyone can get a job. A police chief agrees that there is a superstition repression.
Humane requirements effective against gang crime
We must lower the demands for constant productivity and absolute obedience. Machines can facilitate better working conditions. Better working conditions lead to higher efficiency according to neurology journalist David Rock.
The human brain evolved during the stone age and in the jungle to perceive stress as if we were hunting or someone was chasing us. It is a signal to be prepared for violence.
If we want to have socially and performance-functional people who avoid gang crime, we must give them security.
Strict punishments are not a solution according to the statistics
Sweden had relatively low crime before the welfare cuts. If people feel that there are good jobs at all skill levels and welfare if the accident comes, she feels safe and tends to want to be socially well-functioning.
In Sweden, the correctional service sees a limited effect on the number of crimes if we toughen the punishment (Kriminalvården, "Short on toughening of sentences" [Norrköping, 2021]). In order for the punishment itself to have the desired effect such that the prisoner does not relapse into crime, constructive prison conditions are also required as well as humane conditions as well as a focus on rehabilitation.
A report shows that the murder rate per capita has been relatively constant since the 1700th century, even though they had harsher punishments then such as torture and execution. Murder and violence increase in periods when people drink a lot of alcohol both on single occasions and over time, such as during long parts of the 1800th century. Two periods when more convicted murderers were more often sentenced to forensic psychiatric care, in the 1940s and 1070s, the number of murders decreased. (von Hofer, Hanns, "Crime and punishment in Sweden, Historical criminal statistics 1750–2010,
Diagrams, tables and comments”, Stockholm University [Stockholm, 2011]
https://www.criminology.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.326408.1490705782!/menu/standard/file/Brott%20och%20Straff%20i%20Sverige.pdf)
An overview states: "The authors summarize the research on the general deterrent effect of punishment: "We think it is fair to say that we know of no reputable
criminologist who has carefully reviewed the collected research
the 'deterrence through sentencing' literature which believes that criminal
frequencies can be reduced by damping by increasing string-
the severity of the sentences given in courts.”
This conclusion thus applies to the deterrent effect of harsher sentences, not of
the likelihood of detection and prosecution.” (Tham, Hnerik, "Criminological Highlights - does prison affect crime?", Stockholm University https://www.criminology.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.430645.1552548759!/menu/standard/file/Criminological%20Highlights%20-%20fa%CC%88ngelse.pdf )
Of course we have to punish the individuals who have committed crimes, but if we want to create a socially well-functioning society, there must be jobs with good conditions at all levels and welfare for those in need. Furthermore, not all crimes are equally serious. It is mainly the serious crimes that require harsh punishments. We can not regulate every aspect of everyday life in detail in the law. Overcoming gang crime requires a holistic approach.
To afford welfare
How do we create a strong welfare society? Well, by as well expand the public sector such as by the public sector investing more in innovation development. Innovations create the jobs of the future.
Historically, according to the specialist book "Entrepreneursstaten" by the researcher Mariana Mazzucato, the state has an important role in starting and keeping companies' research and development initiatives going so that new private jobs will arise. In this way, we can get new technological and pharmaceutical innovations that can provide new jobs.
Mazzucato shows that the countries that try to slim down the public sector often end up with a more expensive and more inefficient one. If we want to eliminate gang crime, we must have a strong public sector.
More jobs in the public sector
Then there is an endless amount of work needed in schools, healthcare, welfare, culture, infrastructure, etc public sector also to create tolerable jobs for everyone. Historically, low unemployment through good jobs has only been created with a combination of developing a strong industry and a strong public sector.
The austerity and stress society leads to unemployment, a stagnant business life, hard pressure on the employees, high sickness rates, increased social unrest and all kinds of crime. Smart and well-balanced tax increases are necessary.
We need to raise taxes for those who earn over 43 a month progressively and have an efficient corporate and capital taxation to get an expansive Sweden started again. An economic engine can be large-scale production of publicly sub-financed, good, cheap, beautiful, aesthetically varied and rent-regulated tenements.
The fight against gang crime also requires that we strengthen welfare so that those who do badly in society and working life do not have to risk making a living in some destructive way.
In addition to the public sector and welfare creating work, security and research innovations maintain purchasing power. Production automates companies all the time, which is why for every year after the launch of a new product and/or machine it contributes less to purchasing power. Services do not decrease in value over time in absolute terms. This means that society needs them to maintain purchasing power and GDP in the long run.
Lifelong education is important
Society needs many routes to a good livelihood to avoid gang crime. Furthermore, it is important to have good systems for school, SFI and labor market training. Those who have been away from the labor market, are newly arrived immigrants or young people who are going out into working life must be able to get the new skills they need to be able to get the jobs of the future.
The lack of job matching today is largely due to Reinfeldt's downgrading of labor market education.
By giving everyone safe conditions to get a good job and strong welfare if needed, we reduce crime.
How do we create jobs for everyone??
How moralism at the level of detail breaks people down
The Chief of Police: "People have a superstition about repressive things"
It's a shame that left-wing groups ONLY point to the welfare sector as a possible place to "create jobs" as they say. After all, most people believe that the welfare sector must be paid for, and suspect that it can be expensive.
Historically speaking, full employment has been created by changes in society that have become possible due to technological development. The prime example is the post-war economy created by motoring, household appliances and medicine, with government facilitation via road construction, housing construction and the expansion of health care.
Today we have – according to Carlota Pérez and Mariana Mazzucato who have researched this – great opportunities to use the most modern technology to get away from the excessive dependence on raw materials for everything. Not least the dependence on fossil fuels. This solves a number of problems, not only labor market-related but also this one.
You can google the authors and get a lot of goodies.
I mentioned Mazzucato's research in the article and how it can lead to work for everyone.
There is mostly talk about repressive measures (more police, stricter punishments) and social measures (work, school, social services) but not about the fact that gang crime is a male affair, that over 90% of the crime is committed by young men), i.e. that it is also about a distorted male identity where career, power, wealth and social status are decisive driving forces, which also has its counterpart in society as a whole. It is also about deeper questions, life attitude, about what values you have, what is important in life, meaning of life. But that is talked about quietly.
But you mention yourself that gang crime's twisted ideal of masculinity is matched by our capitalism's twisted ideal of extreme luxury, success and greed. Basically, it's about ordinary people accepting to take gray, tiring ordinary jobs so that others can't live in the hustle and bustle. Time for class struggle!