This year alone, 33 people have been shot dead.
The police survey shows that around 1,200 network criminals in Sweden are under the age of 18, around 170 of them are under the age of 15.
Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson (S) and Liberal Party leader Johan Pehrson debated the development in SVT's Agenda on Sunday.
- If it is a crime that has been committed, you must be able to use coercive measures even if the child is 12 or 13 years old, and it is an act of love, says Johan Pehrson (L), in the program.
It can be about coercion to participate in certain activity on the weekends, or that people over 15 are sentenced to enhanced youth surveillance where telephone tapping is possible to prevent them from becoming tools for serious criminals, he says.
- What Johan Pehrson takes up with weekend house arrest, we have already implemented.
It is a new reform that came into force last year so it is underway, answers Morgan Johansson (S), who also highlights the need for early action.
In the clip, you hear more from the debate in Agenda.