Criminal-Law Reform Proposal Presented 2026
On 9 April 2026 the Swedish government decided a Council on Legislation referral and a bill for a major criminal-law reform, including abolished quantity discounts, broader use of sentencing scales, double sentencing values for gang-linked crimes, and around fifty harsher penalty scales.
On 9 April 2026 the Swedish government decided a Council on Legislation referral and a bill for a major criminal-law reform, including abolished quantity discounts, broader use of sentencing scales, double sentencing values for gang-linked crimes, and around fifty harsher penalty scales.
In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 2026 under Ulf Kristersson as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.
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