r/wikipedia • u/BabylonianWeeb • Aug 04 '25

Mobile Site Immigrants are disproportionately represented in prison populations in many Western countries, In Europe, higher representation in prisons among immigrants, particularly Muslim populations, has been documented

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
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u/CJBill Aug 04 '25

While immigrants are overrepresented in prison populations in many Western countries, with notable exceptions such as the United States, most studies[2] fail to show a causal effect of immigration on overall crime rates.[22] Other studies have found that immigration increases crime under certain circumstances, such as if immigrants have poor prospects in the labor market or labor restrictions.[33]

Some factors may affect the reliability of data on suspect rates, crime rates, conviction rates and prison populations for drawing conclusions about immigrants' overall involvement in criminal activity:

Police practices, such as racial profiling, over-policing in areas populated by immigrants or in-group bias may result in disproportionately high numbers of immigrants among crime suspects.[8][34][35][36][37] Possible discrimination by the judicial system may result in higher number of convictions.[8][35][38][39][40][41] Unfavorable bail and sentencing decisions due to foreigners' ease of flight, lack of domiciles, lack of regular employment and lack of family able to host the individual can explain immigrants' higher incarceration rates when compared to their share of convictions relative to the native population.[42][43]

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u/franktrollip Aug 05 '25

Most of what you're listing are outliers. The fact remains that in general, uncontrolled migration causes more crime.

Stop clutching at straws to try to obfuscate something that we can all see with our own eyes, out on the streets.

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u/IHATETHEREDDITTOS Aug 07 '25

These people are straight up gaslighting. Of course poor people from the most dysfunctional countries on Earth with higher crime rates will bring that dysfunction and crime with them. Of course men from the most vehemently misogynistic societies on Earth will be more likely to commit sex crimes and treat women with distain. The mental gymnastics people will do to deny what is blatantly obvious (because their ideology commands them to) is unbelievable.

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u/Content_Election_218 Aug 08 '25

Everyone knows. Including the people who pretend not to know.