Are Foreign-Born People Over-Represented or Under-Represented in Each Countries’ Prisons Relative to the Total Foreign-Born Population? [OC]

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  1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_immigrant_and_emigrant_population](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_immigrant_and_emigrant_population) – total % of foreign-born population in each country

    [https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/foreign-prisoners?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All](https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/foreign-prisoners?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All) – % of prison population that is foreign-born in each country

    This map shows whether each countries’ foreign-born population is over-represented or under-represented in their countries’ prison system.

    For example, the percentage of foreigners among the total population in the UK and France is 17% for both nations, however, the percentage of prisoners that are foreign-born in the UK is only 12%, whereas in France it is 25%. Hence why the UK is highlighted in blue (indicating under-representation) and France is highlighted in red (indicating over-representation).

  2. US and UK are blue, and they still complain about immigrants. That’s funny

  4. Wouldn’t a considerable proportion of foreign born criminal be deported, making all of these statistics meaningless?

  5. Does the total population even make sense here? Immigrants/foreigners tend to be younger and less well off.

  6. This is probably correlated with whether immigrants are more economic immigrants or refugees. Economic immigrants are usually wealthy and high SES so they don’t go to prison as much. Refugees meanwhile are from the whole gamut of wealth and education, so the effects of discrimination predominate and more of them end up in prison. The outlier is Eastern Europe where there are probably a lot of Russians left over from the Soviet era who are mostly wealthy former administrators.

  8. In Canada, Indigenous people make up a disproportionate part of the prison population.

    In part this is skewed by [people falsely claiming Indigenous background in order to access certain programs. ](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/2-pretending-in-prison/)But even factoring that out, they are still over represented. They are also over represented among the percentage of the population living in poverty, which I’m sure is a common trend when it comes to which groups of people are more likely to end up in prison.

  9. … wonder if many of the red areas share a common religion or the majority of immigrants

  10. Unbelievable. Someone finally found data on Greenland!!

  11. This should really be a gradient. It appears that even .1% above or below a true 0 will decide the color in full, when a very neutral tone would be more reflective.

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