University study's stark result: Overrepresentation of individuals with foreign backgrounds in rape cases is up to 7 times higher – marginalization is not the cause

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"If a person over the age of 15 arrived in Sweden from abroad, they had an increased risk of committing rape. The risk was 6.25 times higher than that of an ethnically Swedish person," says Ardavan Khoshnood, associate professor at Lund University and responsible for the study, in Expressen.
Period2025 Jan 16
Held atSuomen Uutiset, Finland
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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  • Social Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences

Free keywords

  • Rape
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants
  • socioeconomic status