As SVT was able to show on Sunday, the number of reports of the new crime of child peace has been high.
4,000 police reports were expected per year, but so many have already been received after six months.
- The question is whether the police and prosecutors will be powerful with this because this means an increased workload for them.
I know that they were strained even before the child peace crime was introduced, says lawyer Ulrika Rogland, a lawyer who specializes in violence and sexual crimes against women and children.
The child peace crime is closely linked to men's violence against women.
- Making it a crime to allow children to experience domestic violence is another tool to punish and prevent this type of violence and it shows the consequences of violence.
It is not only she who is abused who suffers, but it is a terrible trauma for the child as well, says Jenny Westerstrand, chairman of Roks, the national organization for women's shelters and girls' shelters in Sweden.
"Resources needed"
But to meet the high pressure on orphanages, the place where child interrogations are held and on child interrogation leaders, resources are needed - something that lawyer Ulrika Rogland thinks is lacking at the moment:
- Resources are needed that are set aside for this type of crime, ie crimes against children.
That those who work with this are protected and not picked to work with gang crime, because that is what is done today.
- It is the police and prosecutors who will ultimately make this distribution in which areas are to be strengthened.
But we are following the development and are prepared to contribute the necessary resources, says Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson (S).