This is a very good point. Sweden also has a very extensive safety net, so government will give you a home and enough money to live on if you can't get a job. W

This is a very good point. Sweden also has a very extensive safety net, so government will give you a home and enough money to live on if you can't get a job. While it's really expensive on the surface, it's an excellent crime deterrent: why risk doing crimes when you can just sit on your ass playing Xbox? A welfare mooch is much cheaper per year than a prisoner.