Swedish researchers have charted the misbehaviour of ninth graders since the mid, while also assessing their attitudes towards various infractions and crimes. The latest results, gathered in , show that Swedish kids are better behaved than before. Fewer of them play hooky, scrawl grafitti on buildings or other public structures, steal or get involved in serious crimes such as assaults and burglaries. Adolescent Swedish boys and girls are also more disapproving of this kind of behaviour — with grafitti, skipping school and shoplifting deemed as less acceptable now than when the researchers began their study in Ninth grade is the final year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. Most students are 15 years old that year.
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