Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Salmi, Venla; Kivivuori, Janne; Aaltonen, Mikko

doi:10.1177/1477370815587768

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“…More recently, research has focused those who are born in their new host country with one or two foreignborn parents. (Killias 1989;Martens 1997;Kardell and Carlsson 2009;Salmi et al 2015). These reports all indicate that this group is more criminally active compared with both foreign-born, and those born in the country with two native parents.…”

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confidence: 85%

Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the Twenty-First Century

Adamson

2020

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In 2005, the Swedish Crime Prevention Agency published a report about the link between immigration and crime. Since then, no comprehensive study has been conducted even though Sweden has experienced a large influx of migrants in combination with a rising crime rate. This study conducted by Göran Adamson and Tino Sanandaji is the first purely descriptive scientific investigation on the matter in fifteen years. The investigation (from 2002 to 2017) covers seven distinct categories of crime, and distinguishes between seven regions of origin. Based on 33 per cent of the population (2017), 58 per cent of those suspect for total crime on reasonable grounds are migrants. Regarding murder, manslaughter and attempted murder, the figures are 73 per cent, while the proportion of robbery is 70 per cent. Non-registered migrants are linked to about 13 per cent of total crime. Given the fact that this group is small, crime propensity among non-registered migrants is significant.

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confidence: 85%

Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the Twenty-First Century

Adamson

2020

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“…Moreover, the growth of the ethnic minority populations in Denmark has also been reflected in crime statistics and in the composition of the prison population. As in other European countries (Hällsten et al., 2013; Salmi et al., 2015), disproportionally severe sentencing of people from ethnic minority backgrounds is documented in Denmark (Andersen and Tranæs, 2011). Economic deprivation and social disadvantage account for a part of this over-representation (Andersen and Tranæs, 2011).…”

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confidence: 78%

Space and ethnic identification in a Danish prison

Haller

Kolind

2017

Punishment & Society

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Ethnicity has come to play an increasing role in contemporary Danish prison life. This development not only reflects the growing number of prisoners in Danish prisons with ethnic minority backgrounds. It also reflects changes in prison spatial policy and institutional classifications. Based on seven months of fieldwork in a Danish high security prison, we investigate how such changes at the institutional level and at the level of policy have affected prisoner’s everyday ethnic identifications. We focus especially on the way prisoners reinforce and essentialize ethnic differences by reference to institutional spatial divisions; particularly the division between regular wings and drug treatment wings. We find that ethnic Danish prisoners spending time in a treatment wing are often viewed as ‘soft’ and ‘weak’ by prisoners with ethnic minority backgrounds in regular wings, whereas these prisoners in regular wings are in turn perceived as troublemakers and chaotic by the ethnic Danish prisoners in drug treatment. We also show how ethnic categories are at times blurred in actual practice. We conclude by discussing the implication for policy and practice; especially, we debate whether new spatial prison policies may unintentionally partake in accentuating ethnic stereotypical thinking.

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“…In the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia and the USA, there are no significant differences. However, in Switzerland, Sweden, Slovenia, Italy and the Czech Republic, immigrant youths commit more crimes than non-immigrants (Salmi et al, 2015).…”

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“…More evidence is needed, because there are many methodological issues to consider (samples, data collection methods, definitions of immigration, etc.) (Salmi et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Juvenile crime drop: What is happening with youth in Spain and why?

Molina

Gutiérrez

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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One of the most robust findings in criminology is the fall in crime rates throughout the Western world. However, there is still much to be learnt about this and its causes. This case study analyses the Spanish juvenile crime trends and tests the explanatory capacity of the sociodemographic hypotheses. We use aggregate data provided by the police and self-report data. Our analysis could be of interest in a worldwide debate on the crime drop. Demographic changes and the economic situation have little relevance in explaining the changes. However, public policies seem to have had a greater impact on crime trends. Furthermore, gender equality can be considered a possible explanatory factor.

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Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Cited by 20 publications

References 52 publications

Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the Twenty-First Century

Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the Twenty-First Century

Space and ethnic identification in a Danish prison

Juvenile crime drop: What is happening with youth in Spain and why?

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