Religion isn't a direct cause of crime, that's the same argument the theists use against atheists and neither is valid :/ I think legalizing drugs, instituting anti-poverty social programs, instituting better education, and making prisons state institutions would help a good bit though.
Of course not. There's a lot of reasons, and I don't want to blame religion as much as other social attributes in Sweden's prosperity. I think the number one thing that made Sweden prosperous was their neutrality in many conflicts. Now that the EU threatened their economy to make them join, I think Sweden is going a bit downhill from here. Many small businesses in Sweden will go out of business increasing poverty and then more crime rates if the government won't take care of their welfare.
Legalize drugs and outlaw putting children in religious schools and you'd see the crime level plummet down like the grand canyon.
Religion isn't a direct cause of crime, that's the same argument the theists use against atheists and neither is valid :/ I think legalizing drugs, instituting anti-poverty social programs, instituting better education, and making prisons state institutions would help a good bit though.
Of course not. There's a lot of reasons, and I don't want to blame religion as much as other social attributes in Sweden's prosperity. I think the number one thing that made Sweden prosperous was their neutrality in many conflicts. Now that the EU threatened their economy to make them join, I think Sweden is going a bit downhill from here. Many small businesses in Sweden will go out of business increasing poverty and then more crime rates if the government won't take care of their welfare.
I... Can't even........
There live around 9,500 000 people in Sweden and 317,500,000 in the US (Ish)- Its not strange there are more prisoners in the US then in Sweden.
Moving to Sweden