Many of the parents state that their worry would decrease if their children were educated in how to avoid being drawn into gang crime. The survey also showed that the parents were primarily worried that contact with gang criminals would occur on the internet.
The contact is also more difficult to control in a way, says Sanna Wallin, investigator at the Crime Prevention Council, Brå.
Most parents state that they would turn to the police if they suspected that their children had been in contact with gang criminals. Nearly half would also contact the child's school. Few answered that they would turn to the social services.
The reason was that they did not know that the social services work with these issues, says Sanna Wallin.
The general worry about gang crime is somewhat higher in socioeconomically strong areas than socioeconomically vulnerable areas.
It affects the entire society, but when it comes to their own residential area or their own child, they are not as worried as parents in areas with socioeconomic challenges, says Sanna Wallin.
Those who answered the questionnaire are parents of children aged 10 to 16 in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. A total of 2,757 parents participated in the survey.
