The immigration–crime relationship: Evidence across US metropolitan areas

Reid, Lesley Williams; Weiss, Harald E.; Adelman, Robert M.; Jaret, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.01.001

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“…Our findings indicate that recent immigration is not a meaningful predictor of burglary, theft, or motor vehicle theft in this emerging urban gateway, once community variables are controlled for, which is consistent with the existing research on violent crime in tradition locations (Alaniz, Cartmill, and Parker 1998;Lee et al 2001;Martinez 2004;Reid et al 2005), and contrary to the recent research on violence in new locales (Shihadeh and Barranco 2010). There are a few possible explanations for why we do not see higher rates of property crime in new urban gateway communities.…”

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“…A notable omission from this recent body of work, however, is an examination of property crimes. One of the "violent crimes" often included in several studies of the immigration-violent crime relationship in traditional destinations is robbery (e.g., Ousey and Kubrin 2009;Reid et al 2005;Stowell, Messner, Mcgeever, and Raffalovich 2009). Robbery clearly has a heavy instrumental motivation, making it similar to property offenses in the sense that it is economically motivated.…”

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“…As Reid et al (2005) discuss, this focus on opportunity structure may be too restrictive in assuming that immigrants either do or do not engage in crime as a response to their blocked opportunities. More likely, an individual will engage in both legitimate and illegitimate means at the same time as the presence of legitimate opportunities is likely to ebb and flow.…”

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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Stansfield

Akins

Rumbaut

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In this article the authors examine the impact of recent immigration on rates of serious property crime across communities in Austin, Texas. The greater Austin foreign-born population has increased by more than 580 percent since 1980, and Austin is considered a “preemerging” immigrant gateway city to the United States. The changing population dynamics in Austin provide an excellent opportunity to study the effect of recent immigration on crime in a target destination for recent immigrants. Although interest in the relationship between violent crime and immigration to new locales is evidenced by recent studies that show less favorable outcomes for Latinos in new destinations, little attention has been directed to the relationship of recent immigration with serious property crime in new destinations. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation indicate that recent immigration is not associated with an increased rate of burglary, larceny, or motor vehicle theft once important structural predictors of crime are controlled for.

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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

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“…Reid et al (2005), for example, study the impacts of immigrants on crime by conducting cross-section regressions of levels of immigration on crime rates, controlling for a large number of characteristics of the geographic area. They find that, once the other factors are controlled for in the regression framework, areas with more immigrants do not experience higher levels of crime.…”

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A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Karoly¹,

Pérez‐Arce²

2016

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This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.html.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/rr1397Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2016 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii Preface Traditionally, immigration policy has been a federal responsibility, but, in the past decade, states have begun to adopt policies through legislation and other actions to respond to trends in unauthorized immigration. In some states, policies have taken the form of omnibus legislation designed to place restrictions on immigrants who are in the United States without authorization, through actions of law enforcement and employers, as well as limits in other aspects of public life. In other states, policies have been adopted one by one, such as requiring employers in the public and private sectors to verify employment eligibility through E-Verify, to preclude access to driver's licenses for individuals who are not authorized to be in the country, and to exclude unauthorized students from eligibility for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. At the same time, some states have also adopted policies toward unauthorized immigrants that are unrestrictive-for example, by making driver's licenses available to all regardless of immigration status or basing access to in-state tuition solely on residency requirements, regardless of immigration status.The expanding role of states in these areas of policy raises questions about the consequences of state-level action for various stakeholders in the public and private sectors. Within this context, the goals of this study are to• develop a cost-benefit framework for classifying the potential impacts of specific statelevel policies, identifying the potential domains of impact and how different stakeholders in the public and private sectors would be affected • review the research literature to identify empirical evidence, where it exists, regarding the likely magnitudes of the impacts of specific state-level immigration-related policies • use the cost-benefit fr...

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“…According to ESS data with questions tapping considerations about the presumed consequences of immigration, respondents are mostly concerned with increasing crime rates in 20 of the 21 European countries (Ceobanu, 2010). However, research focusing on the immigration and crime relationship mainly concentrated on comparing crime rates for immigrant and native populations (Engbersen, van der Leun, & de Boom, 2007;Melossi, 2014;Reid, Weiss, Adelman, & Jaret, 2005), and the impact of ethnic composition on the perceptions of neighbourhood safety (Semyonov, Gorodzeisky, & Glikman, 2012). Previous studies have often overlooked the relationship between immigration attitudes and natives' perceptions of immigrants as threats to law and order.…”

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Political attitudes in a rapidly changing European landscape: methodological and substantive insights from the ESS-Netherlands panel component

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The immigration–crime relationship: Evidence across US metropolitan areas

Cited by 245 publications

References 45 publications

Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Political attitudes in a rapidly changing European landscape: methodological and substantive insights from the ESS-Netherlands panel component

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