Crime rates in indigenous populations- the connection?

Question

Now if you live in the US, Australia , New Zealand you might know that indigenous populations sadly have a crime rate then say the colonist". This hold same true to the native americans, aborigines , maori and even black people who may not have been native to america but were taken from their homelands. Why is this so? They are all different cultures who developed indepedent from each other and yet they have same connection. Colonisation by a foreign power. I dont believe this is a conincdence that this happened. Is there a study or a explanitation to this phenemon? As i said this cant be just random.

Answer 1

You are correlating indigenous status to high crime rates and saying this isn't coincidence. However, you don't consider that the "crime rate" was almost non-existent in many of these societies PRIOR to Anglo colonization and social stratification (with indigenous people forced to lower status).



In my tribe, "crime" was unheard of. There was no stealing and murder was very rare - it actually meant that the clan of the murderer would have to pay restitution or physically present the murderer for punishment/death (or provide a clansmen in his stead if he didn't show up, which was extremely rare). I can't speak for Aborigines of Australia or Maori of New Zealand in detail, but I would assume it could have been quite similar. And don't you think it is statistically more significant that you have disparate populations that are "indigenous" but otherwise unrelated racially or cultural yet have "higher crime rates." Yet, the one thing they do have in common is that all of these countries were colonized by Anglos. Don' t you think the populations were subjected to similiar social pressures that were a result of this frequently brutal colonization?



There are other factors that have more to do with crime rates (than race, or "indigenous" status) and that is poverty and social conditioning. In fact, this is the only direct correlation here.

Answer 2

The connection is POVERTY. That aforementioned groups all suffer from extreme, institutionalized, government sponsored poverty.

Answer 3

Crime rates based on what? Actual crimes or prosecution of actual crimes?



You will find that indigenous populations are more often prosecuted and receive stiffer penalties than non indigenous criminals. Maybe that is a study you should look into. And this disparity begins even in school with indigenous students being singled out for punishment more often than their non indigenous peers.



crimes against indigenous people by non indigenous are seldom reported and even more rarely result in an arrest.For instiance, it is fact that american indian women are 3x more likely to suffer violence and 85% of the abusers are non native. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/223691.pdf



colonization is not simply something that occurred hundreds of years ago. it is ongoing for the last 500 years.

Answer 4

Lack of immunity to foreign disease. The cultures you just listed were once known for cleanliness and health. Europeans? Not so much. King Henry the 8th, for example, never had a bath in his life. Not one. Imagine the microorganisms Europeans carried around with them? After several generations of learning to adapt to such filth, people from cultures where hygiene was commonplace couldn't hold up. Disease did away with the majority of those populations LONG before Europeans ever saw them. Of those that survived, being weakened by such an onslaught of disease made it very difficult to hold off invading forces. You should read the book "guns germs and steel".



"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.[1]"

Answer 5

It's the white peoples fault, because they had more inventions and nik naks, they ruined africans and natives by enslaving them/showing them new things/making them more "white", then taking away their culture, making them forget it. When they left, these people were clueless and didn't know what to do.



One of the reasons why Africa is in such poverty, victims of the annihilation of westerners.



Putting it briefly, gnight.