The Berlin-based pro-migration group Mediendienst Integration (Integration Media Service) has presented a study authored by the Münster criminologist Christian Walburg that claims to refute any link between national origin and crime. The study is based primarily on statistics from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office.
Walburg told DW that there had been no increase in the number offenses per 100,000 people for the most common types of crimes. However, he said there had been two areas that had indeed shown significant increases: burglaries and pickpocketing. [...]
Sandra Bucerius, a criminologist from the University of Alberta, has arrived at even more surprising results. For years, she has examined the relationship between migration in crime in Canada, which has a long history of immigration.
"The studies in the international arena are clear," Bucerius told DW. "Clear in the sense that immigration tends to reduce national crime rates and not raise them."
Bucerius said, however, that the second generation, or the children of migrants, often would show an increase in crime - and that a particularly strong risk factor is a lack of social integration. This has worked out better in countries that have been traditional destinations for migrants than in European countries that do not consider themselves as such, she said: "Alongside a welcome culture, the point could be made that a welcome structure is also needed."
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