This is disingenuous. Crime is low in Denmark, Switzerland, Norway or Sweden in large part due to how society is organised. You can't say that put a different p

This is disingenuous. Crime is low in Denmark, Switzerland, Norway or Sweden in large part due to how society is organised. You can't say that put a different population in and it would fall apart. Rather let a different population grow up in these countries and they would simply do less crime. From the things I know about France I can see many obvious reasons why crime might be higher. It is a very strict society compared to e.g. Scandinavia which allows e.g. children and youngster a much freer life. The French are more likely to engage in almost psychological terror against their children. Well behaved children who don't make noise and sit still is valued in France, while Scandinavians are far more tolerant towards the natural behaviour of children and perform very mild sanctions towards bad behaviour. France is also a more elitist and technocratic society, while Scandinavia is more egalitarian and cares more about the common man than the elite. The dehumanising vast monotone areas built in France which are now rife with crime would never have been built in a Scandinavian society. I know I sounded very negative now. I didn't include all the wonderful things about France, because the whole point was to highlight why it isn't just a matter of having different people. The organisation of society creates the people. The same could be said about the US. It is a society organised to produce violence.