New stalking law prompts flood of reports: study
Published: 29 Nov 11 15:14 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37638/20111129/
In the two months since Sweden adopted a new law against stalking, as many as 125 cases have been reported to the police.
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"It shows that the legislation was needed," said prosecutor Mary Thorell in a statement.
The new law enabled victims of stalkers to report successive incidents under the new charge of unlawful persecution (olaglig förföljelse).
Previously alleged victims had been obliged to report each incident as an individual case of threatening behaviour or assault.
The first trial involving a case of stalking opened on Tuesday in Borås in western Sweden and will serve as an examination of the new law.
The majority of the cases represented in preliminary National Crime Prevention Council (Brottsförebygganderådet - Brå) statistics for October are women - in 60 cases, it concerns adult women, while in five cases the alleged victims are girls aged under 18.
According to a Brå study from 2006, one in ten Swedes has experienced some form of stalking at some point in their lives. The majority of those affected are women.
According to the study, the victim is acquainted with the perpetrator in the majority of cases but in a third of all incidents the stalker is an unknown person.
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What type of reasoning it is?
Women do a lot to attract men...Oh, yes they do!
And when they attract a man who is dedicated to her and she doesn't feel the same, doesn't she get what she attracted?
no, your reading of the statistics presented in the article is not correct...
125 total cases in TWO MONTHS FROM OCTOBER 1st...
The figures of 60 women and 5 girls are specifically mentioned as "statistics for October" and NOT the whole two month period.
So its not 65 out of 125, but 65 out of however many of the 125 were reported in the first month.