Laurent Mucchielli - "What do we really know about the link between immigration and delinquency?

Laurent Mucchielli and Barbara Joannon for Désinfox-MigrationsInstitut Convergences Migrations, 29 September 2020.
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"When asked about a number of incidents of violence and aggression that occurred over the summer, Gérald Darmanin declared in July that "we must put an end to the ensauvagement of part of society". More than just a word, the concept of "ensauvagement" was theorised by "criminologist" Xavier Raufer (a pseudonym) in the preface to the book Mechanical Orange France published in 2013. It has since been widely popularised in far-right circles, and gradually adopted within the Republican right. 
A detailed deciphering of this language shows that it is used to designate delinquency and the perpetrators of violence, indiscriminately, by lumping together various phenomena ranging from incivilities to extreme forms of violence". [...]