http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article722800.ece

The past decade has seen an increasing amount of youth violence in Denmark.



A countrywide survey on youth violence shows that the past decade has seen a doubling of youth violence, despite increased sentences for violent crime and threatening behaviour.

While there were 2,700 cases of violent crime among 15-20 year-olds in 1990, that figure grew to 5,200 in 2007, according to the survey carried out by Ugebrevet A4 for the Economic Council of the Labour Movement .

The Crime Prevention Council Chairwoman Eva Smith is worried at the development and says one reason may be that an increasing number of youths hang out in the streets.

Street robberies
Justice Ministry Research Office Chief Britta Kyvsgaard says that there have been more street robberies, in which young people steal cellphones and money.

“It seems that in some youth sub-cultures, young people achieve status by demonstrating power and dominance in the streets – and that can result in attacks on other youths,” says Kyvsgaard.

Copenhagen – Århus
The survey also shows that the country’s two main cities of Copenhagen and Århus are at the bottom of the youth violence league, with the number of charges per thousand young people down at between seven and eight percent. In Gribskov in North Zealand the figure is 15 per thousand, 13 per thousand in Norddjurs and 12 per thousand in Ishøj.

A government commission is to report in September, with proposals on how to limit youth crime.
Hypocritical official media that does not speak the real cause..