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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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Exactly.
Even for illegals, you could probably separate them into two groups. One that just want to work and have a family, knowing they would have to do one thing illegal (enter). Another that came here with criminal intent, with no hesitation on coming illegally, with plans to do nothing but live recklessly and likely part of a cartel or gang. E.g. uncontrolled spread of lawlessness.
But just having the ‘control group’ limited to those that came legally would, of course, be radically different because they followed the law from day one. Like myself.
Other countries have done similar research. Except they came to wildly different conclusions. Illegal immigrants committing more crime, especially rape, and being on welfare. Then their kids disproportionately committing more crime and being on State welfare, followed with similar for the NEXT generation.
You’re literally importing generations of problems, not just one.
Europe is living that dream!
Of course, the article is so non-specific (e.g., define "immigrants") as to be useless BS.
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