The fact that the article is now being withdrawn is due to the researchers having made mistakes in the use of data, says Professor MFO Mikkel Jarle Christensen, who is one of the researchers behind it.
– Data concerns charges and not charges, which the article is otherwise built on. Although accusations in the nature of things influence defendants, they cannot be equated with this, says Mikkel Jarle Christensen in the press release.
According to the study, 92 percent of all charges against ethnic Danes end with sentences, while this applies, for example, to only 79 percent of charges against people with Somali roots.
But that way of calculating it now turns out to be wrong.
– Our focus on charges and police control in the article and in the media has thus been misleading and can not be substantiated by our data, says Mikkel Jarle Christensen.
The article is written on the basis of a peer-reviewed research project with a large data set of 1.7 million cases since 1998 and had been approved for publication.
Source: The Nordic Page