Skewed focus in the Chilean and Swedish criminal policy debate

Violence, drugs and migration characterize the medial and criminal policy debate in both Chile and Sweden. At the same time, the political construction of crime as a social problem needs to be better understood, says Felipe Estrada, prefect and professor at the Department of Criminology.

Felipe Estrada.
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In a new blog post, he discusses the focus of the criminal policy debate. There is a great similarity, despite the fact that the countries are on opposite sides of the world and have two different orientations in the current parliaments.

Read the full text on the Nordic Research Council for Criminology website.