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Penal Code (1962:700).

Main Region

First Region

Sweden
Criminal and penal law
1962-12-21
National
Law, Act

Second Region

Brottsbalk (1962:700)
The consolidation of the Code includes amending texts through March 2015 (up to Act 2015:97). The consolidated text includes various amendments.

Contains 3 sections and 38 chapters concerning, inter alia:

Section I: General Provisions.
Chapter 1: About law and criminal sanctions.
Chapter 2: About the applicability of the Swedish law.

Section II: About the crimes.
Chapter 3: About crimes against life and health.
Chapter 4: About crimes against freedom and peace.
Chapter 5: About defamation.
Chapter 6: About sex crimes.
Chapter 7: About crimes against family.
Chapter 8: About theft, robbery and other acquisitive crime.
Chapter 9: About fraud.
Chapter 10: About embezzlement, breach of trust and other bribery.
Chapter 11: About crimes against creditors, etc.
Chapter 12: About vandalism.
Chapter 13: About dangerous crime for the general public.
Chapter 14: About counterfeiting.
Chapter 15: About perjury, false charges and other perjury.
Chapter 16: About crimes against public order.
Chapter 17: About crimes against public activity, etc.
Chapter 18: About high treason.
Chapter 19: About crimes against national security.
Chapter 20: About in-service crimes etc.
Chapter 21: About violations of soldiers
Chapter 22: About treason etc.
Chapter 23: About attempt, preparation, conspiracy and complicity.
Chapter 24: About general grounds for discharge.

Section III: About sanctions.
Chapter 25. About fines etc.
Chapter 26. About prison.
Chapter 27. About a conditional sentence.
Chapter 28. About probation.
Chapter 29. About sentencing and remission of a penalty.
Chapter 30. About choice of sanctions.
Chapter 31. About transfer to special care in some cases.
Chapter 32. About transfer to special care for young persons.
Chapter 33. If the settlement of warrants and detention time, etc.
Chapter 34. Certain provisions of the aggregation of crime and change penalties.
Chapter 35. About removing the penalty.
Chapter 36. About the confiscation of property, corporate fine and other legal consequence of crime.
Chapter 37. About the Boards.
Chapter 38. Procedural provisions, etc.

Amending Text region

Electronic region

Monograph region

    Monograph title
    Penal Code of Sweden (American Series of Foreign Penal Codes No. 17)
    Author
    Thorsten Sellin, trans.
    Publisher
    Fred B. Rothman (USA), Sweet and Maxwell (UK)
    Date
    1972
    Page range
    114 p.
    ISBN
    0-8377-0037-X

Serial region

    Serial title
    English translation
    Date
    1999
    Volume
    Internet: Swedish Ministry of Justice
    Page range
    179 p.