For UCI professor, sharing data about immigrants and crime is risky
For UCI professor, sharing data about immigrants and crime is risky
- March 8, 2026
- Charis Kubrin, criminology, law and society and CPIP affiliate, The Orange County Register, March 8, 2026
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Immigrants, authorized and otherwise, are less likely to commit serious crime or be sent to prison than are native-born Americans. … That simple, statistically backed fact, is making the professional life of Charis Kubrin, a criminology professor at UC Irvine, both highly rewarding and potentially dangerous. The reward side of the deal is this: In June, Kubrin is scheduled to go to Sweden to collect the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology, an award she’s getting specifically because of her long-term work on the intersection of immigration and crime.
For the full story, please visit https://www.ocregister.com/2026/03/08/for-uci-professor-sharing-data-about-immigrants-and-crime-is-risky/.
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