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Nearly 1,000 Honour Culture Crimes Reported in Sweden in 2020
10 Mar 2021
Swedish police statistics revealed there had been nearly 1,000 reports of crimes thought to be motivated by honour culture in 2020.
The figures state that police received 980 reports of crimes thought to be linked to honour culture in the country of some 10 million people. The report represents the first full year of the statistics since police started to record honour-related crimes in the autumn of 2019.
Jenny Edin, superintendent and national process leader for the police’s work against honour-related crime, told broadcaster Sveriges Radio: “The purpose of introducing this marker was to enable the police to be able to detect cases where there is a need to investigate whether there is an honour motive as early as possible.