La delincuencia no tiene nacionalidad, solo circunstancias
Un estudio de la Universidad Carlos III rebaja la brecha de delincuencia entre extranjeros y españoles un 48% y muestra sustanciales diferencias por países
Immigration politics often leads to inflammatory statements that accuse foreigners of crimes against women, murder, theft, and fraud, solidifying the erroneous belief that foreigners are inherently criminal. Jesús Sánchez Barricarte, a sociologist at Carlos III University, spent several years analyzing 5.6 million criminal convictions issued between 2007 and 2023.
After standardizing the data by comparing Spanish citizens and foreigners of the same age and gender, he discovered that the gap in criminal behavior between the two groups has decreased by 48%. Foreigners commit 1,294 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, while Spaniards commit 675. Although the crime rate of foreigners was 2.7 times higher than that of Spaniards, the standardized data reduces this disparity to 1.9.
However, this difference must be attributed to other factors, as some countries of origin have crime rates well below the national average.
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