Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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There were only 624 Romanians in prisons in England and Wales at the end of 2012.
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But note, that's actually several times the incarceration rate of the UK population as a whole and the fourth highest prison population of foreign nationals behind Jamaica, Poland and Ireland.
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Well, I'm sure many media outlets would love to produce such a league table, Tim, but it would only be the start of a serious analysis.
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It would tell you nothing about a nation, only about the demographics of the people who come to a particular country.
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Something like that.
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And the other problem with producing this fancy league table you have in mind is that the data are terrible.
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It's hard to say where people are from.
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Is it place of birth?
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Is it nationality?
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Plus the ONS stress it's always hard to estimate foreign national populations in the UK.
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And the figures we've been looking at are for arrests, not convictions.
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Yes, maybe.
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Although the Romanian ambassador has another theory.
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He thinks that the embassy's good relationship with the police has something to do with the statistics.
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Thank you for downloading More or Less from the BBC.
This is the version of the programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 17th May 2013.
Here's Tim Harford.
Hello.
It is very specific and high.
So how would this figure have been calculated?
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