Africans, violence and genetics
Over on Twitter/X, science journalist i/o writes: I get replies all the time under my posts that suggest or claim that wildly disproportionate black violence and the apparently unmovable US…
Money and crime: the relationship that wasn’t
There must be 10,000s of studies and news articles reporting findings that wealth or income is negatively related to crime. In other words, poverty causes crime. The popular theory being…
Sweden finally publishes new immigrant crime rate data, which shows no surprises
Back in 2017, I wrote about how Sweden has a policy of hiding their immigrant crime rate statistics. (See also this tweet.) One cannot even buy them from the statistics…
Personality and Individual Differences censors skin color study (Rushton and Templer)
I hate censorship, so I repost the content they don't want you to read here. I'm hoping to contribute to a Streisand effect. This week, the time has come to…
New paper out: Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & de Kuijper, M. (2020). Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3) journal link (gated) We estimated…
XYY supermales and violence
Nature has a review of Robert Plomin's new book by some random lefty historian data-free reasoning type called Nathaniel Comfort (he follows the usual pattern of having a background in…
Swedish immigrant crime data from the 1980s
I was skimming a Wikipedia article related to immigrant crime and came across an obscure Swedish language report from the 1990s: Ahlberg, J. (1996). Invandrares och invandrares barns brottslighet: En…
Measurement error and behavioral genetics in criminology
I am watching Brian Boutwell's (Twitter, RG) talk at a recent conference and this got me thinking. https://youtu.be/yDm9bCgPKvs?list=PLD7ASfe52RybK4nYTZejG4-kQYqKI1rXX What are we measuring? As far as I know, there are typically…
Crime/violence, gender, sexual orientation, cognitive ability
In a recent paper, Beaver et al looked at the relationships between crime, gender and sexual orientation: This study examined the association between sexual orientation and nonviolent and violent delinquency…
Crime by immigrant group by proportion of immigrants in the neighborhood in the Netherlands
Just a quick analysis. When I read the Dutch crime report that forms the basis of this paper, I noticed one table that had crime rates by the proportion of…