The Swedish Criminal Code establishes the general framework of criminal law in Sweden. It contains provisions on criminal liability, including intent, negligence, participation in crime, attempted offences, sanctions, and sentencing. The Code also regulates Swedish criminal jurisdiction, specifying the circumstances under which offences committed within Sweden or abroad may be prosecuted by Swedish courts. In addition, it contains provisions concerning prosecution, limitation periods, and the legal consequences of criminal convictions. The Code defines and sanctions a broad range of criminal offences, including offences against life and health, property offences, offences against public order, economic crimes, corruption-related offences, environmental crimes, pollution, offences affecting public health, animal-related offences, corruption and fraud, abuse of office, money laundering, and the confiscation of assets linked to criminal activity. Chapter 8, Section 11, provides for the application of theft provisions to the unlawful taking of specified natural products from forests or land; Chapter 12, Section 2a, criminalises the unlawful taking of trees, grass, wind-felled timber, stone, gravel, peat and other unprocessed natural materials from forests or land, including branches, bark, leaves, nuts, resin and similar products; Chapter 13, Section 7, criminalises conduct that creates a public danger by poisoning or infecting food, water or other substances, or by spreading serious disease; Chapter 13, Section 8, criminalises conduct creating a general danger to animals or plants, including through poison, the spread of serious disease, pests or weeds; Chapter 10 contains Sweden's principal provisions on bribery and corruption; Chapter 20, Section 1, creates liability for public officials who breach duties in the exercise of public authority; Chapter 12, Sections 1-3, criminalises damage to property; and Chapter 13, Sections 1-6, address fires, explosions and other dangerous acts.
Suède · 1962-12-21