According to economist Ingvar Nilsson, who has calculated the social cost of various types of exclusion, the cost of a gang criminal is just over SEK 23 million, if the person is active for 15 years.

The costs come both from the crime itself and the social efforts that are put in from various authorities.

An expensive story for society - which can be avoided with the right efforts at an early age.

- Very often it is discussed that it will be too expensive to make efforts for young people, but what really becomes too expensive is not to intervene early, says Ingvar Nilsson.

According to Nilsson, an early intervention on a young person who is heading in the wrong direction would cost one hundred to two hundred thousand.

- If you compare it with 23 million or even 70 to 90 million for a really violent intensity, it is not expensive, he says.

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"We must discover the children in a school environment," says Torbjörn Forkby, professor of social work.

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L: School best vaccine

Several parties agree to intervene at an early age - especially in school.

- If you pass school in sixth, ninth and high school, it is the best vaccine available, says Johan Pehrson (L).

- It is the school that protects individuals from ending up in these destructive environments.

We need to invest more in that, says Linda Snecker (V).

Johan Forssell (M) also points out the importance of the home.

- Something we have not talked about, the parents.

That children grow up with parents who give them love but also what is right and wrong.

KD also agrees.

- We must break new recruitment and ensure that parental responsibility is strengthened.

SD: Double penalties

For S, it is also important to invest in schools and social services.

- I would like to see the same ambitious discussion about the conditions of the social secretaries.

It is at least as important as the police, says Morgan Johansson (S).

SD's most important measure against gang crime is longer sentences.

- To double the penalties for gang criminals, so that those who today terrorize entire areas get the punishment they deserve, says Tobias Andersson (SD).

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"Men must change," said Morgan Johansson (SocDem), Minister of Justice.

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