The tougher penalties are part of the government’s aim to shift the focus from the perpetrator to the victim’s opportunities for redress. But the changes could cause problems for the already overcrowded prisons.
How will the prisons be able to take care of all the new inmates?
– We have to do that in different ways, by expanding the correctional system, i.e. more prisons and institutions, says Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M).
Hear Gunnar Strömmer about criminal law and the changes that the correctional service needs to make in the video above.