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by timoth3y 2542 days ago
> The ugly truth is a lot of 'benefits' of the scandanavian approach come from a highly (for now) homogenous society

Citation needed. This claim gets thrown around a lot, but is there any evidence or actual research backing the claim that diversity leads to crime?

There is plenty of evidence that disenfranchisement leads to crime, but you can have diversity without disenfranchisement.

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Where are your citations that the Scandinavian style of relatively luxurious prisoner treatment is more effective? If we're going by correlations there's probably no more evidence for this than the correlation with homogeneous ordered societies. Probably less since you have like a couple datapoints exclusively in northern europe while the whole world tends to show a trend of imprisonment outcomes being better in nonbanana republics.
Since you don't have evidence, your "ugly truth" is really just your ugly opinion.