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U.C. Irvine professor receives prestigious award for ‘myth-busting’ research on immigrant crime
KTLA ^ | November 13, 2025 | by: Lily Dallow

Posted on 11/13/2025 5:43:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

University of California, Irvine professor Charis E. Kubrin has been awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology -often considered the field’s Nobel Prize equivalent- for decades of research challenging the notion that immigrants bring crime to their new communities, officials announced Thursday.

A jury comprised of field experts and fellow professors selected Kubrin and her co-winner, Mark Lipsey of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University, for their work. Lipsey was also recognized for his research demonstrating that rehabilitation programs can be effective for convicted offenders and reduce their crime rates.

Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and society at U.C. Irvine, has built her career examining how immigrants impact public safety.

Her award-winning research found that immigrants actually have lower crime rates than native-born populations and may help reduce crime in their communities. So why do so many people believe the opposite?

Kubrin tells her students that this inaccurate perception “is nothing new. It feels new. It feels particularly strong and salient in today’s context, but this is a historical reality. Immigrants are often blamed for societal problems, including crime.”

The challenge now, Kubrin told school officials, lies in bridging the gap between research and public understanding.

“The research needs to have a bigger impact on public perception,” Kubrin said. “The question is how; that’s the million-dollar question. I’m still working that out, but at a minimum, we need to make sure that the studies and the findings reach the policymakers directly so that at the local, state, national and international levels, they are using evidence to design policy.”

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1 posted on 11/13/2025 5:43:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All mis/disinformation.


2 posted on 11/13/2025 5:45:33 PM PST by jimtorr
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Her award-winning research found that immigrants actually have lower crime rates than native-born populations and may help reduce crime in their communities. So why do so many people believe the opposite?

Probably because the reality of the situation doesn't correlate to her "award-winning research".

3 posted on 11/13/2025 5:45:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another award given to politically chic research?


4 posted on 11/13/2025 5:45:56 PM PST by jimfree (My 22 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell that to the families of those killed in Los Angeles and Orange County from illegals but considering this is Ktla the lil commie network who goes all in protecting their precious illegals they could care less about the victims


5 posted on 11/13/2025 5:46:43 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And then you read a couple of more posts and you see where they arrest 200 sex offenders in an immigration raid. And never mind that sanctuary cities don’t report the immigration status of offenders making it appear that fewer offenders are immigrants. Studies can show pretty much anything depending upon what variables you are willing to omit.


6 posted on 11/13/2025 5:51:04 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Her award-winning research found that immigrants actually have lower crime rates than native-born populations and may help reduce crime in their communities. So why do so many people believe the opposite?

Because she researched legal immigrants in a restricted setting.

You can make data say anything if you just remove those pesky data sets that contradict your narrative.

7 posted on 11/13/2025 5:51:45 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Barf alert?


8 posted on 11/13/2025 5:52:45 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

For progressives victims are the eggs that get broken and in the making of the omelette.


9 posted on 11/13/2025 5:52:47 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shakespeare was wrong. First we kill all the leftist professors before we kill all the lawyers.


10 posted on 11/13/2025 5:55:46 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now do illegal immigrants....


11 posted on 11/13/2025 5:55:51 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell


12 posted on 11/13/2025 5:57:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is not the data I have been looking at for the past 20 years.


13 posted on 11/13/2025 5:59:53 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ award-winning research found that immigrants actually have lower crime rates than native-born populations and may help reduce crime in their communities”

This kind of crap is how I know Trump doesn’t give a rats a about the Nobel


14 posted on 11/13/2025 6:00:15 PM PST by stanne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

100% of illegal immigrants are criminals.


15 posted on 11/13/2025 6:00:31 PM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Notice the very big changeup at the beinging, in the definiton.

They look a *migrant* crime, not illegal immigrant crime.

John Lott says this is how they create their narrative and cook the books.


16 posted on 11/13/2025 6:01:44 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Next you’ll be telling me Barack Hussein Obama won the peace prize.


17 posted on 11/13/2025 6:04:56 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...immigrant crime...

A little stealth indirection there.

"Immigrant crime" is not the same thing as "Illegal Immigrant Crime."

18 posted on 11/13/2025 6:07:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Operation Dirtbag: Florida and federal authorities arrest more than 200 sex offenders in immigration raid.
19 posted on 11/13/2025 6:08:52 PM PST by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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Who are we supposed to believe, our own eyes or some pencil necked pointy headed "professor"?

20 posted on 11/13/2025 6:13:48 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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