Violent Immigrant Crime: Due to Higher Psychoses Rates?
The violent immigrant crime wave which is flooding Britain – manifesting itself in gun, knife and other bizarre criminal practices – could be linked to far higher rates of psychoses amongst migrant groups.
The problem of bizarre crimes amongst migrants has been highlighted with the most recent case of Algerian Mohamed Boudjenane who was captured on a London Bus CCTV camera carrying his murder victim’s head in a bag (image alongside).
Such behaviour clearly falls outside of ‘normal’ parameters, and is also reflected in the obviously overwhelmingly black-origin knife and gun crime plagues in London, Nottingham and elsewhere.
While there have of course been indigenous British murderers who are obviously mentally unbalanced, their numbers, compared to the entire population, have always been quite small and have attracted media attention precisely because they are exceptions to the norm.
However, new research on psychoses rates amongst migrant groups, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry on 3rd November, 2008, has shown a raised incidence for all black and ethnic minority subgroups compared with whites. It also reveals that the risk of psychoses for first and second generations varies by ethnicity.
Led by Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Jeremy Coid, and Dr James Kirkbride from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, the research shows that both first and subsequent generation groups in England are at higher risk of schizophrenia and other psychoses (in line with previous literature).
Unknown prior to this study, was whether rates were further elevated in second and later generations (i.e. UK born) ethnic minority groups, than in their first generation counterparts.
Professor Coid’s and Dr Kirkbride’s research suggests that rates are not consistently elevated to a greater extent for later generations (in comparison to the first) but that much depends on the ethnic group in question, and more specifically their age profile.
The study, for example, shows incidence rates of psychoses are significantly (statistically) greater for second compared with first generation black Caribbean immigrants.
Their respective age profiles reveal that this is primarily because the second generation are more likely to be in the peak at-risk ages for psychoses (under 30) and that the first generation, having migrated in the 1950s and 1960s whilst in their 20s and 30s, have now moved out of the critical age period of risk for psychoses into their 50s, 60s and 70s.
For other ethnic — such as Asian — groups, rates are elevated among the first generation, who tend to be younger and have migrated to the UK more recently.
The research, originating with Queen Mary, University of London, goes on to claim that stress factors such as ‘racism’ and ‘discrimination’ (caused by whites, of course) “could” be a cause of the higher psychoses rates amongst migrants.
This forms part of the continuous ‘blame whites for everything that is wrong in any non-white community’ insanity which grips much of academia. However, in the same breath that Professor Coid makes the obligatory ‘blame whitey’ suggestion, he goes on to say: “But why should some minority groups be at greater risk than others?”
In other words, the report actually says that the presumption that ‘racism’ is the cause is open to question because the psychoses rates are not uniform across all migrant groups. The academics squirm out of this obvious contradiction by saying that “more research is needed on the topic.”
