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Immigration and Crime Correlation

Studies examining the relationship between immigration and crime rates in the U.S.

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Jan 15, 2026

How do socioeconomic factors and policing practices affect measured immigrant crime rates?

Measured differences in crime between immigrants and natives often shrink or disappear once socioeconomic conditions—poverty, unemployment, education, housing instability—and selection effects are acc...

Jan 7, 2026

Are violent crime statistics higher with large non western migration to Nordic countries

The short answer is: in Nordic countries recorded violent-crime rates tend to show overrepresentation among immigrant populations, and this overrepresentation is concentrated among non‑Western origin ...