Citation

Mcclintock FH, Wikström POH. Br. J. Criminol. 1990; 30(2): 207-228.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

This study reports some findings from the first part of a larger research project comparing criminal violence in Scotland and Sweden. The purpose of this first study is to discuss specific problems of comparability of legal definilions and official crime statistics on violence between the two countries, and to compare the rate of known violent criminality, its structure, and trends.