Immigration and criminality

Episode 1 - The disturbing investigation

Using INSEE census data and Ministry of the Interior statistics, John Paul Lepers began by visiting the French towns with the highest immigrant populations: Aubervilliers, Beausoleil, Ferney-Voltaire and Oyonnax. The differences in delinquency in these four communes at the top of the immigration hit parade were such that he had to change his method. He compares delinquency in two large conurbations where everything is at odds: Montbéliard, with a very high immigrant population, and Caen, with virtually no immigrants. The results astonished him: they were the same. With the help of statisticians and crime specialists, he demonstrates that there is no link between immigration and criminality.

Episode 2 - The making of prejudice

In a second film, John Paul Lepers tries to understand why he, like so many others, believes in this prejudice. He discovers the insidious mechanisms at the root of all discrimination. With the help of professors in social psychology, he conducts experiments in elementary school and laboratory rooms that reveal the unconscious processes that lead us to create human categories and stereotypes, which become the prejudices at the root of all discrimination.