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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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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So she is saying stop blaming the Irish?


21 posted on 11/13/2025 6:17:56 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well yeah… she just focused her research on immigrants from western nations…


22 posted on 11/13/2025 6:18:24 PM PST by Skywise
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To: willk

I think with enough manpower those could be parallel tracks.


23 posted on 11/13/2025 6:21:34 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: webheart

and UC Irvine used to be a good University but the professors they have on staff are mostly now comprised of pro hamas scum, my brother used to work there but he left when they had the pro hamas protests last year


24 posted on 11/13/2025 6:22:55 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Define “crime”....


25 posted on 11/13/2025 6:27:34 PM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I lived in SoCal, lived in an apartment complex in Anaheim, eventually moving to a house in the inland empire.

During most of the 80's experienced -0- issues with criminal activity, good times, great folks/environment.

...then came Clinton and the opening the floodgates at the border

...mid-90's come and multiple vehicle break-in's, car totaled by an illegal, school buses shot at, graffiti everywhere...then came the aerospace dive, housing crash, environmental regulations... and the great exodus of mfg. jobs and with it "Americans" from Cali., (including myself). BTW, the factory I worked at for 9 years got razed, and in it's place became what was known as the epicenter of sub-prime loans.

I'll hate that traitorous bent pr*ck forever.

26 posted on 11/13/2025 6:40:30 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: BenLurkin

And Obama was nominated for the Peace Prize after 11 days in office...


27 posted on 11/13/2025 6:48:00 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It appears to me he used the new scientific method. Start with the conclusion and work backward to develop the algorithms and select the facts that support your conclusion. Climate “science” pioneered this modern approach.


28 posted on 11/13/2025 6:48:01 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: grobdriver

“I think with enough manpower those could be parallel tracks.”

🤣🤣🤣


29 posted on 11/13/2025 6:52:25 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Really? Does any sentient being believe something written by a California “professor”?

Give me a break.

STEM profs excepted - if they are writing about real STEM subjects. Maybe.


30 posted on 11/13/2025 7:20:42 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BenLurkin

>Probably because the reality of the situation doesn’t correlate to her “award-winning research”.

I have read countless posts and other items over the last 5 years or so in which public searches of crime have ‘creative’ interpretations of origin and race, ‘amending’ hardened-looking foreigners and others to ‘white.’

Bad data, bad research. All you have to do to win an award is not actually look at the data.


31 posted on 11/13/2025 7:24:37 PM PST by No.6
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To: jimtorr

same people who said, officially:

- Six feet distance, closing schools, masks, dozens of safe and effective jabs, would save grandma (and us all) from certain death.

- all gas powered devices must be replaced by electric vehicles funded by taxpayers.

- biology, genetics, and a thousands of yrs of human understanding of male/female anatomy and purposes were wrong.

-


32 posted on 11/13/2025 7:31:07 PM PST by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Coming into our country illegally IS A CRIME... a criminal breaking into your home doesn’t have to rape your daughter to be removed - breaking in is enough. Same here.

Where do they get these liberals from? Under rocks?


33 posted on 11/13/2025 7:31:34 PM PST by GOPJ (Vietnam had 95% tariffs on the United States. Were they taxing us? <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Conflating legal immigrants with illegal aliens once again, I see.

That’s not research. That’s “spin”.


34 posted on 11/13/2025 7:31:44 PM PST by CFW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmm...wonder if she ever checked out this website: https://illegalaliencrime.com


35 posted on 11/13/2025 7:55:11 PM PST by LizzieD
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“pesky data sets”
.
Like “Honor killings”?


36 posted on 11/14/2025 12:32:54 AM PST by Does so (GOP should fund a new party. Call it the "Muslim Party". .....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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To: Karliner

** Obama won the peace prize. **

He didn’t earn a win.

It was given. Like money for nothing.

The free chicks he didn’t want, anyway.


37 posted on 11/14/2025 1:12:44 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a load of bull.


38 posted on 11/14/2025 2:11:51 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming “scientists” have migrated over to criminology.


39 posted on 11/14/2025 2:14:16 AM PST by grumpygresh
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So she did her research based on climate change models.


40 posted on 11/14/2025 4:11:57 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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