Diversity

Many people, including Charlton Heston in the 2002 film Bowling for Columbine, will argue that ethnic diversity causes tensions that raise crime rates. The research suggests that the fact is somewhat closer to the reverse, just like with violent video games. According to Sefa Churchill and Emmanuel Laryea, who examined data trends from 78 nations for their 2019 paper "Crime and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-Country Evidence," this is the case.

They discovered that, regardless of whether it was an issue of language or ethnic variety, crime rates were often lower among more diverse populations to a degree that was outside the usual margin for error. By the way, this was contrary to what Churchill and Laryea predicted, who admitted in the abstract that their findings were "counterintuitive."

Linguistic diversity was actually more advantageous in a number of categories. For instance, when comparing larceny offenses, linguistically diverse communities showed a 9.8% lower rate of crime whereas ethnically diverse groups saw an 8.4% decrease. Overall, ethnic variety was better for society than linguistic diversity, as evidenced by the fact that the homicide rate was 1.62% lower in linguistically varied societies but 6.38% lower in ethnically diverse ones. But any measure that reduces homicide rates by even one victim is unquestionably worthwhile when it comes to this crime.