Criminalizing an activity will lead to gangs controlling, protecting, and trafficking in the criminalized activity. There should be no surprise that after Sweden criminalized paying for sex, there are more gangs. The typical government response is to increase the laws, domestic spying, and policing. A rational response would be to undo the unhelpful legislation.
Swedish Mafia: fighting a losing battle
Published: 8th November 2007 20:21 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/9046/
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports.
Sweden is not a country usually associated with mafia-style gang crimes. But over the last decade a new breed of organized crime has sunk its claws into Sweden, leaving the authorities several steps behind.
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Prostitution in Sweden
Prostitution in Sweden is technically illegal, since it is a crime to purchase the service. Sweden considers prostitution a form of violence against women so the crime does not lie in the prostitute selling sexual services, but in the customer's buying of such services.[1]
In 1907 prostitution was legalized;[2] in 1999 the act of buying the service was criminalized.[3]
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