Immigration and Crime in the New Destinations, 2000–2007: A Test of the Disorganizing Effect of Migration

Ferraro, Vincent

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“…This is a relatively novel methodological approach and a contribution to the literature. In this paper, we dispel misconceptions about high levels of crime in a border city with data provided by border residents themselves, which parallel papers analyzing crime rates (Ferraro 2016;Lyons et al 2013;Martinez et al 2004;Martinez et al 2016;Ousey and Kubrin 2009). Based on our research, residents of El Paso, Texas, feel safe living next to the border with Mexico.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…They found that when San Diego neighborhoods experienced an influx of immigrants, there were fewer homicides. Similarly, Ferraro (2016) conducted fixed effects regression analyses of data from 1252 cities and towns between 2000 to 2007, which included 194 new destinations (areas with populations over 1000 and where immigration increased by at least 150 percent within the last ten years). Ferraro (2016) found that new immigration destinations experienced greater decreases in crime in comparison to other areas.…”

Section: Empirical Links Between Immigration and Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Ferraro (2016) conducted fixed effects regression analyses of data from 1252 cities and towns between 2000 to 2007, which included 194 new destinations (areas with populations over 1000 and where immigration increased by at least 150 percent within the last ten years). Ferraro (2016) found that new immigration destinations experienced greater decreases in crime in comparison to other areas. Martinez et al (2004) examined whether immigrant enclaves and ethnic and racial composition affect drug homicides in San Diego.…”

Section: Empirical Links Between Immigration and Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

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Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

Castañeda

Chiappetta

2020

Social Sciences

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Research has continued to show the overall safety of the U.S. border region contrary to the widespread belief about the insecurity of the U.S.-Mexico border and frequent claims for the need to secure the border in order to prevent the spread of violence into the rest of the country. Rarely do we ask how border residents feel about safety and crime, which could shed significant light on the claims that the border is an insecure warzone posing a threat to the entire country. While calls to secure national borders are common, outsiders' perceptions of an unsafe border are not supported by official crime rates and statistics, Border Patrol apprehensions, or the everyday experiences of people in American cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This paper investigates the perception of crime and security, as expressed by the residents of El Paso, Texas, a large city located along the U.S.-Mexico border and directly across from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Data come from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded survey that asked 919 residents about their perceptions of crime, sense of security and safety in their neighborhood and the city in general. The results show that the overwhelming majority of border city residents feel safe and that those who are undocumented and raised in El Paso are the most likely to report feeling safe or very safe. We also find that the foreign-born population had a statistically significant lower felony conviction rate than those who were U.S.-born, an important qualifier in discussions over immigration and its connection with violence and crime. Contrary to sensationalized claims about border violence, residents of El Paso do not display any of the sense of insecurity experienced in neighboring Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. We present hypotheses about possible causes for these low levels of violence in the U.S.-side of the border and discuss the dissonance between the reality on the border and perception outside of the border region.

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Section: Empirical Links Between Immigration and Crimementioning

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Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

Castañeda

Chiappetta

2020

Social Sciences

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“…Research from the past four decades finds strong support for the revitalization thesis. Areas with more immigrants have lower property crime rates (Ferraro, ), nonlethal violence (Sampson, Morenoff, and Raudenbush, ; Sampson, , ), and homicide rates (Ousey and Kubrin, ). These patterns are replicated in longitudinal studies as well as research investigating undocumented immigrants.…”

Section: Theoretical Approaches On Immigration and Crimementioning

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Different Paths: The Role of Immigrant Assimilation on Neighborhood Crime*

Disha

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This article considers immigration a process that extends beyond numerical size. Processes of assimilation alter the effect of immigration on crime. That means the study is not concerned with direct but with contingent effects. The goal is to demonstrate how paths of segmented assimilation modify the effect of immigration on crime. Methods Combining a data set on neighborhood crime with U.S. Census demographic indicators, this study relies on zero‐inflated negative binomial regression models to examine variation in neighborhood levels of homicide and property offenses as a consequence of interactions between immigration size and assimilation patterns. Results and Discussion Immigrant assimilation moderates the effect of immigration size on crime. Controlling for neighborhood disadvantage, when the probability of downward assimilation is high, immigration size reduces neighborhood safety. When the probability is low, immigration size enhances it. The effects are more robust for homicide regression models with recent immigrants and immigrants with limited linguistic skills. Conclusion The analyses highlight the benefits of contingent models for understanding the relationship between immigration and crime.

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“…Media accounts and some earlier perspectives suggested that, through a variety of mechanisms, immigrant status contributes to greater participation in crime at the individual level and to higher crime rates in the aggregate (e.g., Wortley, ). Yet, the results of most recent research demonstrate that the link between immigration and crime is negative rather than positive (e.g., Ferraro, ; Green, ; Hagan, Levi, and Dinovitzer, ; Kubrin, Hipp, and Kim, ; Martinez, ; Martinez and Valenzuela, ; Ramey, ; Sampson, ; Stowell et al., ; Tonry, ; Wadsworth, ), and that “increasing immigration tracks with the broad reductions in crime the United States has witnessed since the 1990s” (Sampson, : 2). Indeed, the findings from individual‐level studies show that across generations, for the children of immigrants and then their children, crime and other problem behaviors are more rather than less prevalent, suggesting that U.S. nativity rather than immigrant status is more likely to be a prologue to participation in crime.…”

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Interrogating Race, Crime, and Justice in a Time of Unease and Racial Tension

Peterson

2017

Criminology

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This address has a twofold purpose. First, as the first African American to serve as president of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), I celebrate the contributions of scholars of color to the study of crime and criminal justice and to the ASC. I do so by pointing out the accomplishments of several African American scholars whose contributions are numerous and exemplary. I also emphasize that African Americans are joined in their efforts by scholars of multiple other colors, including, Latinos/as, Native Americans, and Asians. Second, in view of responses to apparent unrest and racial tension in U.S. society that is signaled by lethal violence between police and U.S. residents of color, I offer four recommendations regarding how we might proceed with our research, and report our findings, in ways that improve the likelihood of helping to inform societal debates and policy developments around crime and justice issues. In my conclusion, I encourage the ASC to 1) continue to grow the diversity of its membership and to integrate the research and findings of scholars of color into the mainstream of criminology; and 2) take further steps to conduct research and share findings with diverse audiences to ensure that post‐truth does not become normative regarding crime and justice issues.

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Immigration and Crime in the New Destinations, 2000–2007: A Test of the Disorganizing Effect of Migration

Cited by 43 publications

References 44 publications

Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

Different Paths: The Role of Immigrant Assimilation on Neighborhood Crime*

Interrogating Race, Crime, and Justice in a Time of Unease and Racial Tension

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