It is early interventions that do the most good, research shows. But even if it is not the responsibility of the lacking HVB homes for what young people do for crime, they are one of society’s agencies to help, says David Pålsson, associate professor of social work at Stockholm University.
Several suspected perpetrators in the last year’s wave of violence have been treated at criticized HVB homes, SVT’s review shows.
Convicted of recruitment
One of them is the 21-year-old with the alias “Louise Gucci” who is convicted of having recruited young people for acts of violence. He is accused of having ordered the murder of a 15-year-old boy in Skogås and was sentenced in June this year to 18 years in prison for, among other things, attempted murder.
He, like many of the young people in care, has a background where he has moved around, relocated time after time in different places. As a 17-year-old, he was placed at Korpnästet’s HVB home but was forced to leave after four months as he was not drug-free at the facility.
– We do our absolute best to include everything. We have nothing to gain by picking up young people who don’t fit in with us, says Christer Gustafsson Renlid, acting director of Korpnästet.
Hear more from Christer Gustafsson Renlid and David Pålsson in the video above.