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ifo Migration Monitor: Facts about the Criminality of Refugees

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  • Yvonne Giesing
  • Carla Rhode
  • Anne Schönauer
  • Florian Steinruck

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Anyone who considers only the proportion of refugees in crime statistics is ignoring important factors such as people’s reporting behavior towards refugees or the age and gender structure of refugee populations. What’s more, the media pay too little attention to the specific, deeper causes of criminality among refugees. These could include the living conditions in refugee accommodation or refugees’ lack of orientation and perspective in Germany. In addition to these distorting and possible influencing factors, the article presents preventive measures to reduce refugees’ propensity to violence.

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  • Yvonne Giesing & Carla Rhode & Anne Schönauer & Florian Steinruck, 2019. "ifo Migration Monitor: Facts about the Criminality of Refugees," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 72(05), pages 32-37, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:72:y:2019:i:05:p:32-37
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    1. Lange, Martin & Sommerfeld, Katrin, 2024. "Do refugees impact crime? Causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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