Are asylum seekers more likely to commit crimes, or are young men more likely to commit crimes & many seeking asylum are young men?
We cannot really be sure given the data on hand, leaving the media to draw its own concussions based on (often wider anti-migrant) prejudices.
It would be better to focus on the much larger group of migrants (granted asylum, and via other routes) who make a massive contribution to British life... but where's the 'news' in that?
#migrants
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/14/truth-about-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-uk
@ChrisMayLA6 The most comprehensive dataset for Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) crime we have for England and Wales is the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Dataset (COCAD), and what we see is that the only ethnic group somewhat over-represented in the data is white British men.
This will be due to being the most privileged group, and having more opportunities for abuse (leveraging positions of power, etc.). The Quillium Foundation and Centre for Migration Control reports have been discredited.
@ApostateEnglishman @ChrisMayLA6 Quillium looked at newspaper reports iirc. Hardly a credible data source.
@ApostateEnglishman @francis @ChrisMayLA6 Also white men can more easily get jobs working with vulnerable children. Some children's homes were completely taken over by these people.
@tokensane @ApostateEnglishman @francis @ChrisMayLA6
The principal reason is just numbers. Every kind of activity within a society is likely to represent the relative ratios of the population in any categories used for that population.
The categories are irrelevant. Similarly the preponderance of men in this is also because of the relative numbers employed in positions of trust.
yes, sadly, 'stranger danger' is somewhat outweighed by 'family & friend danger'... not that you'd know that form the media coverage (even when individual cases are reported)
@francis @ChrisMayLA6 Quillium also only looked at a narrow subset of CSE crime: "gang grooming", loosely defined as the opportunistic but organised targeting of vulnerable teens on the streets (hence so many of the convicted being cab drivers!). This model of abuse is indeed more prevalent in Pakistini-heritage communities, but is not the only model: traditional paedophile rings, for example, are almost exclusively white British men. Plus most victims are targeted by family or family friends. 🤷🏻♂️