#Crime is a perennial problem.
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#Crime is a perennial problem. A lot of blame is being laid on groups in society. But there's one number you never see in these discussions.
What percentage of everyone is a criminal?
It's a single-digit percentage. Grab 100 random people in Sweden: 3 of them are criminals.
But there are in fact groups that have a higher percentage, though still low. Here are some more highly correlated factors.
* Poor
* Young
* Men
* With short education -
#Crime is a perennial problem. A lot of blame is being laid on groups in society. But there's one number you never see in these discussions.
What percentage of everyone is a criminal?
It's a single-digit percentage. Grab 100 random people in Sweden: 3 of them are criminals.
But there are in fact groups that have a higher percentage, though still low. Here are some more highly correlated factors.
* Poor
* Young
* Men
* With short education@mrundkvist
This can change if you redefine crime and ask to how many people affect it...The result could be:
* Rich
* Old
* Men
* With high education
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#Crime is a perennial problem. A lot of blame is being laid on groups in society. But there's one number you never see in these discussions.
What percentage of everyone is a criminal?
It's a single-digit percentage. Grab 100 random people in Sweden: 3 of them are criminals.
But there are in fact groups that have a higher percentage, though still low. Here are some more highly correlated factors.
* Poor
* Young
* Men
* With short educationThe parameter "immigrant" is fairly useless for crime prediction. This is because lots of immigrants are
* Not poor
* Not young
* Women & girls
* With educationSo if someone blames #crime on immigrants, they need to explain why wealthy old lady dentists are not included in their concept of the immigrant.
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#Crime is a perennial problem. A lot of blame is being laid on groups in society. But there's one number you never see in these discussions.
What percentage of everyone is a criminal?
It's a single-digit percentage. Grab 100 random people in Sweden: 3 of them are criminals.
But there are in fact groups that have a higher percentage, though still low. Here are some more highly correlated factors.
* Poor
* Young
* Men
* With short education@mrundkvist in the UK it's slightly more than 1 in 5 people that have a criminal record of some kind....
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@mrundkvist in the UK it's slightly more than 1 in 5 people that have a criminal record of some kind....
Here's the source for the UK. Would be surprised if the number of people in Sweden who have had a criminal record at some point in their lives is really as low as 3% - suspect it is far far higher!!
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@mrundkvist in the UK it's slightly more than 1 in 5 people that have a criminal record of some kind....
@jbenjamint Cool, this means that in the UK too there is no group that is more criminal than not.
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@jbenjamint Cool, this means that in the UK too there is no group that is more criminal than not.
@mrundkvist quite, although men are roughly 3x more likely than women to have a record.
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@mrundkvist quite, although men are roughly 3x more likely than women to have a record.
@jbenjamint
Indeed. See discussion above. -
#Crime is a perennial problem. A lot of blame is being laid on groups in society. But there's one number you never see in these discussions.
What percentage of everyone is a criminal?
It's a single-digit percentage. Grab 100 random people in Sweden: 3 of them are criminals.
But there are in fact groups that have a higher percentage, though still low. Here are some more highly correlated factors.
* Poor
* Young
* Men
* With short education@mrundkvist depends on how you define criminal though. I'm sure poor people are underrepresented in fraud and tax evasion, and I also know those are less likely to be investigated (in the UK definitely, but I'm sure elsewhere too).
See also high profile cases of rich rapists and paedophiles who never face justice whilst alive because they have power.
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