Why is the crime rate in Canada declining year after year? Seek an answer

The first neglected factor pointed out by Professor Palmer is the increasing number of immigrants in Canadian society. Research shows that new immigrants in Canada pay more attention to their children's higher education and family values. New immigrant families not only prepared education funds for their children's higher education, but also paid attention to their children's studies from an early age, urging them to study hard and choose their own majors. A large number of studies show that the higher the education level, the lower the group crime rate; Therefore, new immigrants have played a great role in reducing the social crime rate in Canada. Research by Canadian sociologists shows that although the concept of attaching importance to higher education and family values will be weakened by the second generation of immigrants, it will still be higher than the average level in Canada. Statistics show that it was from the early 1990s that Canada began to accept a large number of foreign immigrants, especially Asian immigrants, and the crime rate in Canada began to decline year by year.

Professor Campbell pointed out that the second factor leading to the decline in crime rate is white-collar crime caused by new technology, while white-collar economic crime has increased significantly, but Canadian statistics and reports have not kept up. Therefore, the decline of crime rate in recent years is also related to the failure to report and count white-collar crimes in time. The Canadian police confirmed that with the development of positioning, locking and other scientific and technological means, traditional crimes such as stealing cars, computers and mobile phones are becoming more and more difficult and unprofitable; Although the crime of financial fraud using the Internet has obviously increased, the number of people who report to the police has not increased in the same proportion.

Experts believe that this may be because people have not developed the habit of caring for their online accounts and other assets as much as their material property; In addition, the public security organs' detection, prosecution and bringing to justice of computer internet financial criminals are still lagging behind the pace of white-collar crimes. Therefore, many Canadians either don't know that they have become victims of high-tech crimes on the Internet, or they know that they have become victims, but they think it is useless to report the case, so they choose not to report it. This factor is also part of the reason for the obvious decline in the crime rate in Canada.