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Sweden debates migration and crime with evidence too weak for certainty
A government-commissioned review found that Swedish research cannot yet establish migration's net causal effect on crime.
Migration and crime are tied together with great confidence in Swedish politics, but the country's own evidence review says certainty is not available. The gap matters because causal claims shape both criminal policy and how immigrant communities are judged.
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