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Foreign-background Swedes are more overrepresented among homicide victims than offenders
Brå's figures complicate a debate that often discusses foreign background mainly as an offender category.
Sweden's homicide debate often places foreign background beside offending, while official figures show an even larger overrepresentation among the people who were killed. The imbalance matters for prevention, because communities portrayed through offending are carrying still greater levels of lethal harm and loss.
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