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The 2004 GSS data confirm the 1999 finding that immigrants are less likely than non-immigrants to be victims of violent crime. Otherwise, with the exception of a lower level of satisfaction with police response, the characteristics of the crimes experienced by immigrant and non-immigrant Canadians are generally similar.

Since immigrants come from many places and some have experienced justice systems other than Canada's, the perceptions that they have of the Canadian system are important. The data show that their assessment of it is generally similar to that of non-immigrants. Nevertheless, immigrants generally have somewhat higher levels of fear of crime than non-immigrants.