The Swedish capital has introduced an intensive home-based family therapy scheme targeting children as young as six who are exposed to abuse or neglect, with the explicit aim of preventing future criminal involvement. The programme, based on the American MST-CAN model (a structured multi-systemic therapy approach), involves therapists visiting families three to five times per week for up to nine months, focusing on strengthening parental responsibility and rebuilding trust between adults and children. Around 90 families will take part over three years at a cost of roughly five million euros — an investment city officials say is justified given that, according to Swedish research, each individual drawn into gang crime costs society approximately two million euros.