| I think the liberal immigration policy might play a role here. Sweden has taken a huge amount in the past 15 years, twenty percent of the population are immigrants. Obviously, most of them are not criminals. But on a group level, they are more likely to commit crimes. About 2x compared to Swedes, after adjusting for income, age and education (it's higher before adjusting, obviously). Digging deeper, there are large differences between groups. For example, the group men (compared to women) are much more likely to commit crimes. Another factor that stands out is geography. People from East Asia have similar crime-rates as Swedes, while people from Africa are 5-10x as likely to commit crimes (compared to Swedes). This holds for most categories, including violent crimes, sexual crimes and a bunch of other groups. Here is the landing page from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, a governmental agency: https://bra.se/publikationer/arkiv/publikationer/2021-08-25-... Here is the report with the data mentioned above: https://bra.se/download/18.1f8c9903175f8b2aa70f6df/163110731... |