Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland publish suspect, conviction, and prison data by origin that align in showing foreign‑background overrepresentation and persistence after socioeconomic adjustments. This cross‑measure consistency illustrates how high‑quality registers can defuse methodology disputes common in U.S. debates.
— It argues for building administrative data systems that allow contested topics like immigration and crime to be adjudicated with transparent, multi‑measure evidence.
2025.10.07
70% relevant
The piece leans on Swedish administrative and international datasets (SCB, UNODC, Selin et al. 2024; Sturup et al. 2020) and promises offense- and origin-specific rates, reflecting the Nordic practice of using register data to ground immigration–crime comparisons and reduce methodology disputes.
2025.10.07
75% relevant
Relies on Denmark’s StatBank (STRAFFO1/2, STRAF47) and a Justice Ministry report to present conviction and sentence statistics, exemplifying how high‑quality administrative registers anchor contentious crime comparisons.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
2025.08.29
68% relevant
The article shows Alaska’s Department of Public Safety refusing to produce a homicide-victim list and claiming it doesn’t keep such records, illustrating how the absence of robust administrative registers hampers evidence-based debate on crime by origin—precisely the contrast highlighted by Nordic register practice.
Inquisitive Bird
2025.07.31
100% relevant
Brå (2021), Bäckman et al. (2021), Kriminalforsorgen (2024), SSB (2020/2024), and Statistics Finland query tables referenced in the article.
Ben Sixsmith
2025.07.31
50% relevant
Ed West’s argument that public opposition tracks nationality‑specific crime rates, and that elites should acknowledge patterns, points to the need for transparent crime‑by‑origin data like the Nordic administrative registers that depoliticize these debates.
Saloni Dattani
2025.07.21
70% relevant
The article shows many low- and middle‑income countries lack reliable vital registration, and DHS surveys substitute for that missing administrative backbone; cutting DHS removes the 'register-like' dataset that makes disputed metrics (mortality, fertility) comparable and credible.