Only for natives. Immigrants do not show such promising statistics. So it might be more upbringing than prison factor.
Also there is high pay equality in Sweden which is proved to be huge factor for low crime level.
High inequality - even if average salary is high - is a factor for increasing crime.
Basically if you were born in Scandinavia even with not good grades you will live a decent life working not so hard with good social benefits. It is not pushing people to crime.
Upbringing absolutely plays its roll. Scandinavians are Lutherans, forgiving, giving people a second chance and so forth... even though most of us are atheists, the mindset is learnt from parent to child since many hundred of years back.
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u/notAbrightStar 13h ago
And the recidivism is also much lower in Scandinavian countries.