Sweden is the rape capital of the world
The claim that "Sweden is the rape capital of the world" is misleading: Sweden records very high rates of reported rape in European and international datasets, but those figures are driven in large pa...
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Sweden uses a relatively broad legal definition of rape, which inflates its reported rape figures.
The claim that "Sweden is the rape capital of the world" is misleading: Sweden records very high rates of reported rape in European and international datasets, but those figures are driven in large pa...
A recent Swedish population-based study analyzing convictions for rape and related offences between 2000–2020 finds a pronounced overrepresentation of people with an immigrant background among those c...
Official 2022–2024 data compilations and media fact‑checks show that countries in and the figure among those with the highest reported per 100,000 inhabitants, while several Southern and states appear...
Nordic countries uniformly criminalize child pornography and restrict violent or degrading sexual depictions, but national definitions, sentencing ranges and enforcement tools vary: Sweden has tighten...