Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants
by James Rothwell, Telegraph:
Study also suggests the longer a foreigner lived in Sweden, the less likely they were to commit rape.
Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants, a new study has found.
Researchers at Lund University found that 63 per cent of convictions for rape or attempted rape were handed down to people born abroad, or whose parents were born abroad.
The study examined 4,000 convictions between 2000 and 2024 and also suggested that the longer a foreigner lived in Sweden, the less likely they were to commit rape.
It comes as the Swedish government adopts a significantly tougher stance on migration, with new rules coming into force which require foreigners to prove they have lived an “honest life” to gain citizenship.
The study was led by Ardavan Khoshnood, a criminologist at Lund University, and follows a similar study in 2018 which found that 58 per cent of rape convictions came from residents born overseas.
Mr Khoshnood said the statistics also showed that migrants who had been in Sweden for less than five years were more likely to be convicted of rape.
“The longer you have lived in Sweden, the lower the odds of being convicted of rape. So we can see that the integration and understanding you develop for Swedish society plays a major role,” Mr Khoshnood told Swedish news outlet SVT.