The Impact of Disciplinary Action for Crime Prevention

Abstract

The objective of the research is to analyze if the change of disciplinary action has any impact in the number of disciplinary cases within the Swedish international operations. In the period between the two Swedish international operations in Congo (1960´s) and Bosnia (1990´s), the law changed from being able to place errant soldiers under arrest to being able to punish only by payroll deduction. The results show that the number of cases decreased in Congo but increased in Bosnia.