Rijdt, Tom te (2021) The relation between migration background and crime from an age, education, and gender perspective. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Migration is a subject with many different aspects. The migration and crime relation is one of them. Research has covered this topic for nearly a century and its relation is very complicated. In this study, the relationship between migration and crime will be further analyzed on the influence of age, education, and gender in the Netherlands. A standardization and decomposition analysis will be used with data gathered from the CBS to gain insight into the influence of crime type, age, education, and gender on the crime rate between non-migrants and people with a migration background in the Netherlands. Furthermore, comparative rates are used to overcome the issue of lacking data. This will all be done with care for research ethics, as the topic researched is very sensitive. Findings indicate that compositional differences between non-migrant and migrant populations can explain a proportion between 8.8% and 61.6% of the differences between the crime rates. For both factors age and education, the non-western migration group is most heavily influenced by its composition. Also, differences between the populations on gender are identifiable. Male/female crime ratios are much higher for the non-western migration group. For future research, individual data gathering should be the main aim, as current data is not widely available. Also, more insight into labor, employment, and income characteristics is a useful addition to the existing literature.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2022 11:54 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2022 11:54 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3784 |
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