Over the past decade in Sweden, there has been a growing political and media discussion on the expansion of illegal drug markets. Although research has increased, few studies have examined how former drug users perceive the situation. This study explores former drug users perspectives on the illicit drug market in the 21st century. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 former drug users and four main themes were identified: (1) the violent environment, (2) the escalation of organized crime, (3) the ease of access to illegal drugs and (4) diverse perspectives on policy and prevention. There was a consensus among the interviewees that there has been an increase in organized crime and violence in the illegal drug market and that the availability of drugs in Sweden has increased during the 21st century. However, there were diverse opinions regarding drug policy and legislation. More research is needed on lived experience and attitudes to drug policy in Sweden.

Våld i arbetslivet är ett samhällsproblem som fått ökad uppmärksamhet i både forskning och media sedan 2000-talet. I media framställs ofta problemet som växande. Men vad visar forskningen? I detta kapitel behandlas beskrivningar och tolkningar av det arbetsrelaterade våldet omfattning, fördelning och utveckling över tid, baserat på offerundersökningar och registerdata.

I studien undersöks polisanställdas arbetsmiljö genom anmälningar till Arbetsmiljöverket om arbetsrelaterade skador på grund av våldsutsatthet på arbetsplatsen. Trenden är relativt stabil med två toppar åren 2011 och 2014. Studien visar ålders- och könsskillnader gällande anmälda skador men också brist på tillräckliga data, vilket är avgörande för att bygga upp kunskap om polisanställdas arbetsmiljö och för att kunna vidta lämpliga åtgärder för att säkerställa hälsa och hållbarhet inom polisen.

Global evidence indicates minimal connection between immigration and crime. Nordic research, however, has been generally carried out on individuals and shows that immigrants are over-represented in crime. This has led to claims that high crime rates are due to immigration. We directed our study towards these claims by analyzing immigrant population prevalence, defined as the percent of foreign-born individuals, and violent crime in Swedish municipalities between 2000 and 2020. Nearly all municipalities had higher violent crime rates in 2020 relative to 2000. To discern whether drastic increases in municipality-level crime rates could be connected to municipality-level immigrant population prevalence, a retrospective case–control design was used to select 20 municipalities with the highest increase in reported violent crime rates and 20 municipalities with the lowest increase in reported violent crime rates. Immigrant population prevalence had little association with high rates of reported violent crime. The average association between immigrant population prevalence and violent crime rates calculated from all municipalities was also weak and non-significant (p > 0.05). Municipalities with a high increase in crime tended to have more crime correlates than municipalities with a low increase in crime. However, more research is needed on the impact of migration in small towns, especially those that have experienced economic and social stagnation.

Safety and security are essential concepts for everyone involved in mental health care. Safety means the absence of potential harm, while security refers to the protection against deliberate, external threats. The focus on the management of safety and security changes from Safety-I (avoiding that something goes wrong) to Safety-II (ensuring that everything goes right). Due to societal dilemmas, clinical practice needs to address safety and security for everyone involved in mental services, instead of primarily safety and security of professionals. The primary focus of safety management should be on relational safety and security, instead of procedural and environmental safety and security. Several organisational innovations, such as High Intensive Care, Six Core Strategies, and Safewards, assist in ensuring safety and security for all involved. People working or staying in mental health wards need to be safe and secure but also need to feel safe and secure.

Internationally, and especially in the US, there is extensive previous research about crime development and immigration. However, there is lack of research about how migrants themselves perceive their involvement in crime from a life-course perspective. The aim of this study is to explore how migrant ex-prisoners interpret their criminal careers and which turning and returning points that perceived as most important. The data on which this study is based are comprised of semi-structured interviews with formerly convicted individuals in Sweden. This study is part of the WHIS study focusing on describing the people behind the statistics. 

In Sweden and around the world, studies have consistently shown that immigrants commit more crimes than nonimmigrants. Findings of immigrant overrepresentation in crime have led to beliefs that growth in the immigrant population will beget more crime. However, research from around the world has generally indicated that immigration has little to no effect on aggregate rates of crime. In Sweden, crime rates have remained relatively stable over the past 40 years despite a rapidly growing immigrant population. It is unclear why crime rates have not concomitantly increased with the growth in the immigrant population. In this study, we aim to understand how immigration is associated with crime. In the WHiS-Project. We ask seven specific research questions in six sub-studies:

1. How has crime and immigration developed in Sweden and comparable countries between 1975-2019? 2. How has crime and immigration developed in different municipalities? 3. How has the composition of the crime suspects and those prosecuted for different types of crime changed with respect to ethnicity, social class, gender, health, and childhood conditions? 4. What do criminal and social careers look like across generations among individuals? 5. How do individuals interpret their development with regard to crime and other life events? 6. What do "co-offending" networks look like in terms of ethnicity and other social factors for different types of crime? 7. How have the characteristics of persons suspected for or prosecuted for certain types of crime changed?

In the following presentations, we will present preliminary findings from four of our six sub-studies.

På bara drygt ett år har Sverige haft fyra skolattacker. Den 21 mars miste två lärare i Malmö livet när en 18-årig elev gick till angrepp. Kriminologen Sofia Wikman menar att glappen i samhällets skyddsnät leder till fler våldsdåd.