Nevertheless, these offenses only a small piece of the crime situation in Norway, says the researchers behind the report.
One of 50 charges of solved crimes for 2010 applies to an applicant or person without legal residence in the country, according to a new report by the Oxford Research commissioned by the Directorate of Immigration (UDI).
The researchers calculated that indictments against citizens from typical asylum seeker land, and that is not registered in the National Register, together make up 2.5 percent of all charges.
– This is so small that it has minimal impact on the overall crime situation in Norway, says Project report, Dag Ellingsen and researcher Sigmund Book Mohn.
Unsafe numbers
This study is an update of a similar survey conducted in 2001
In 2010, the asylum seekers in the country on average 14 600 people . It is difficult to estimate how many illegal residents who were in the country during the same period.
According to calculations by Statistics Norway and UDI, it may be somewhere between 18 100 and 56 000 researchers concluded that the lowest estimate is most credible, after contacting key sources in the field.
This basically gets people in these two groups charged more than three times as often as the general population in Norway.
But among asylum seekers and people without legal residence is far more young people and women than in the general population.
– we compare only people who have the same age and gender, disappears most of the over-representation, explains researchers.
Thus the lands that there are twice as many charges in these groups in the general population.
Greater risk of getting caught
– paradoxically enough, their dis bigger the number is believed to be here illegally, says researcher Sigmund Book Mohn.
Dag Ellingsen emphasizes that this group is more often the police are investigating and have greater risk of being arrested more often than others.
– Among them there are everything from serious asylum seekers who try to avoid breaking the law at all costs, to people who have come to the country to commit crime and claims to be an asylum seeker when they are caught, he said. – It is not an unknown phenomenon that such a socially marginalized group scores high on kriminalitetsmål.
Asylum seekers: no increase
For young male asylum seekers around the age is the crime rate is actually lower than the corresponding group in general population.
Offences committed by only asylum seekers case for treatment, has not increased significantly from 2001 to 2010.
– It is quite a different picture than the one often can get through media, says Ellingsen.
In the year ended Aftenposten an examination of judgments including Oslo District Court and found that almost four percent of the cases related to asylum seekers or undocumented.
Ellingsen believes there is reason to count the number:
– Those who want to commit crime, is present with high probability in Oslo, and is therefore a much larger share of crime picture in the capital than elsewhere, he said.
more than doubled in nine years
In nine years, the increase in charges against people who were not resident in Norway, large
- In 2001 came under 4 percent of the charges, around 7000, people who were not resident in Norway.
- In 2010, the percentage more than doubled to 8 percent, or 13 800 charges.
A large part attributable to citizens from the Schengen area as Norway was part of 2001, and from the new EU countries that joined in 2004 and 2007, the researchers wrote in the report .
Asylum seekers and people without legal residence has had a more stable share of the offenses.
From January 2011 to August last year did Aftenposten an examination of the judgments of the district court in Oslo, Asker and Bærum, Follo and Lower Raumarike against people who claimed to be asylum seekers.
321 judgments were from Oslo district court where the total was passed in 8316 to the same period. This means that 3.8 percent of sentences were handed down against asylum seekers or people who are staying illegally in the country.
Immigration Director: This is usually people who abuse the asylum system
Even though asylum seekers account for a very small proportion of crime in Norway, I observe that they still are overrepresented, says Frode Forfang (pictured), Director of the Directorate of Immigration (UDI).
-For UDI is important to make effective on crime committed by asylum seekers. These are usually people who abuse the asylum system. In addition to the damage crime causes, destroys also for people who really are on the run, he said.
-In cooperation with the police, we ensure quick processing of such asylum cases and rapid return where possible. Immigration and police have great attention to these matters. We have established good practices and has a close cooperation with the police, saying Forfang.
Many drug crimes
Compared to all charges in 2010, asylum seekers and foreigners without legal residence registered with a relatively larger proportion of drug offenses and a lower proportion of traffic offenses and economic crime.
They also have a lower proportion of violent crime.
– This may be because of violence and sexual offenses within these groups are not reported to the police, says Ellingsen. A particularly large proportion of the charges comes naturally enough violations of immigration law. (See graphic)
Major differences between countries
The figures suggest that asylum seekers from those countries most asylum seekers come from and will stay, less over-represented in the statistics of charges than the others.
There are large differences between countries. Iraq, Russia and Nigeria stand out among those with the most accused who is not registered in the National Register, while among others, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Ethiopia stand out with very few.
– Asylum seekers from Afghanistan, which is often singles, young men, we find hardly left in the statistics, says Ellingsen.
But he cautions against placing too much emphasis on the numbers as they may be the result of random circumstances and individual cases, in that they only valid for one year.
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