Reading Leif G. W. Persson's Linda, as in The Linda Murder.
Bengt Karlsson was forty-two years old.
Between the ages of twenty and thirty-three, he had collected a total of eleven convictions for violent behavior against seven different women of his acquaintance aged between thirteen and forty-seven when the crimes were committed.
The convictions were for aggravated abuse, physical abuse, unlawful threats, unlawful compulsion, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment.
These had led to Karlsson being given seven different terms in prison, totaling four and a half years, of which he had served approximately half.
Not long enough at five times that, surely.
Sure, it's fiction, but Sweden is notorious for depriving policing of point.
If that's social democracy or the European way of punishment, neither should be followed.
Remember that when someone whines about mass incarceration in America.
Longer terms create mass incarceration.
But longer terms keep people off the streets longer, and may actually deter.
Update.
Backstrom was the first stop on her hike to Canossa.
Very good.
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