Government wants to lower the age of legal majority to tackle gang crime. But criminology professor Felipe Estrada is critical of the proposal.
He says there is no scientific evidence that lowering the age curbs crime among young people. Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer is not worried that milder crimes, such as school fights, will begin to occupy the work of the police. The government will appoint an inquiry to review the issue, as Dagens Nyheter previously reported.