Some estimates put Muslims at 10% of France's population. Muslim overrepresentation in French prisons show what fools the government leaders were to let in some many Muslim immigrants.
Iranian-French researcher Farhad Khosrokhavar said in his recently published book Islam in Prisons that Muslims make up some 70 percent of a total of 60,775 prisoners in France.
As ethnicity-based censuses are banned in France, he said complexion, names and religious traditions like prohibition of pork indicate that Muslims constitute an overwhelming majority in prisons.
In the United States the figures I see for cost of imprisonment run to $20,000 per prisoner and higher. Prisoners are expensive. But criminals loose in society are even more expensive. They cause lots of damage and loss of people and property and also necessitate more money spent on security measures. Combine the lower rates of economic achievement of Muslims in France and seems very unlikely that French Muslims are a net econominc benefit to the rest of the people of France.
By Randall Parker at 2005 July 21 11:52 PM Immigration Crime | TrackBackI wonder if Fhe french do as the Australian Government dose ?
Failure to be Id as an citizen the prisoner serves he's sentence then is deported.
(And there has been a row over here over incorrect deportations, Australian citizen have been deported by mistake in the past despite a 6month detention period in which checks are carried out)
Posted by: FriendlyFire on July 22, 2005 04:00 AM70%?, i think some one has been playing with the numbers game. Just because some one comes up with such a number without actual verification is highly dubious, or it just another version of Islamaphobia.
Posted by: M.Robinson on July 22, 2005 05:03 AMYou know, 70% may be an underestimate of muslims in French prisons. That is consistent with the numbers in surrounding European countries' prisons, so it is not out of line with reality. Reading the book cited in the link might give you a better idea of what the number is based on.
People of lower intelligence generally fall into a life of crime more often than more intelligent people. This may simply be a reflection of the disparity in that particular parameter in the French society. Incoming immigrants to a more advanced culture can not always expect that they are intelligent enough to meet the greater challenges they are certain to face. If not, crime always presents itself as an alternative due to the inevitable alienation of failure.
Posted by: Braddock on July 22, 2005 05:50 AMI prefer the Singapore model. Don't burden the State with their upkeep. Hold a trial, and if found guilty, cane them and send them home. You don't have to be caned too often to learn your lesson. This way you either shape up, ship out, or (eventually) get yourself a death sentence. It's harsh, but it works. Singapore is successful, peaceful, and orderly.
Posted by: Brock on July 22, 2005 06:27 AMThe massive racial disparity in America's incarceration rates have long been a dirty little secret which the libera elite is gravely embarrassed of, and goes to great pains to hide.But at least Americans can claim a 400 year history of racial strife, tragically entwined with the fonding of the States themselves as the root cause.
Astonshingly, the French through their own stpidity, have achieved a racial disparity in incarceration rates, in the space of a generation, that puts America's to shame!
The massive racial disparity in America's incarceration rates have long been a dirty little secret which the libera elite is gravely embarrassed of, and goes to great pains to hide
They most certainly do not go to great pains to hide the numbers regarding black incarceration; the "liberal elite" never shuts up about it. To them it is proof of racism and the need to fight it, along with poverty - which, of course, they'll tell you is entirely due to racism.
Posted by: Matra on July 22, 2005 08:21 AMofficials deliberately select hostile and violent populations to be waved in, in order that intercommunal conflict be intensified continually. Then they get their long sought rationale for the use of emergency powers.
Posted by: John S Bolton on July 22, 2005 01:45 PMWhere -- in Iraq? Or in America? And who are these "officials", and for whose interests are they acting? Am I allowed to guess?
Posted by: sr on July 24, 2005 11:42 AM