Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-29-2008

[andrewducker]

• Immigration Reduces Crime Rates
  Feel free to pass on to any intelligent conservatives you know...
  (tags: sociology racism immigration crime society)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how far these findings could be generalised to the UK.

Also, I wonder about the difference between the total number of crimes and the average per 100,000 members of the population. Given that someone cannot commit negative crimes, I'd say that by the first condition the right wing politician could still spin it as being a rise in the absolute number of crimes and in the immigrant population - i.e. it looks like a positive correlation - even if by the second condition the absolute proportion of crimes to people had dropped.

Likewise, there needs to be more information on types of crime, whether immigrants who are the victims of crime maybe don't report it as often for fear of being deported or perceptions of negative experiences at the hands of the authorities etc.