Sweden
Assaults on the
Child
in Criminal
Statistics
Notes on
translation:
The word used to descibe the crimes reported on
in these documents (Wittrock, U. 1992, 1995)
is "misshandel". It literally means "to mis handle", with the idea of
not dealing with a person (physically) in a proper manner, situations
commonly referred to in English as assault, battery or abuse. It is
used for all cases at all ages, adults and children alike.
I have generally translated "misshandel" as
assault in these documents, since that is the term commonly used in
English.
In the tables there is information given for
"large urban counties". That is a common term in Sweden and refers to
the large metro areas of Stockholm, Gothenburg and
Malmö.
The tables also refer to "other Nordic
countries". The Nordic countries are Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
and Iceland. They are usually separated out in statistics, because of
the common free labor market and freedom of citizens of one Nordic
country to move to and reside in any other Nordic country.
Ulla Wittrock
phone 08-783 50 11
Data for 1981-1991: Wittrock,
U. (1992) / Data for 1984-1994:
Wittrock, U.
(1995)
See Larzelere
for a discussion of these data.
