Is Immigration Responsible for the Crime Drop? An Assessment of the Influence of Immigration on Changes in Violent Crime Between 1990 and 2000

Wadsworth, Tim

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“…Butcher and Piehl (2007) further document that recent immigrants are one-fifth less likely to be incarcerated than natives. Wadsworth (2010) examines the increase in immigration between 1990 and 2000 and notes that it coincides with the reduction on violent crime in the United States. Using U.S. Census data and Uniform Crime Report data to investigate the link, the study indicates that areas with the largest increases in the numbers of immigrants experienced the largest reductions in homicide and robbery.…”

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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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Section: Text Box 32 Literature On Immigration and Crimementioning

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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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“…Despite the fact that new immigrants often reside in communities that are characterized by a variety of criminogenic factors, research tends to show that the presence of new Latino immigrants results in either a negligible or negative effect on crime (see, for example, Davies and Fagan 2012;Hagan and Palloni 1999;Kubrin and Ishizawa 2012;Lee et al 2001;Martinez 2002;Martinez and Lee 1998;Martinez et al 2008;Mears 2001;Ousey and Kubrin 2009;Reid, Weiss, Adelman, and Jaret 2005;Sampson 2008;Wadsworth 2010). This body of research has focused almost exclusively on violent crime, particularly homicide, to examine the recent immigration-crime relationship.…”

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“…Immigrants are not typical of those in their host countries; they are generally the most motivated and least apt to engage in criminal behavior upon arrival as it may jeopardize their gains and ability to support those in their native country (Davies and Fagan 2012;Tonry 1997;Wadsworth 2010). Many Mexican households, for example, turn to migration for instrumental reasons as an adaptive strategy to compensate for missing or failed economic markets in Mexico, sending those able to the United States-common in a society undergoing transition to a developed market society (Durand and Massey 2004).…”

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

Stansfield

Akins

Rumbaut

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Sociological Perspectives

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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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“…However, this attribution of crime to immigrants has not been consistently supported by empirical research in the West. Some studies even find that immigration may to some extent lead to a decrease in the crime rate (Wadsworth 2010;Zatz and Smith 2012).…”

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Domestic migration, home rentals, and crime rates in China

2017

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Although it is commonly believed that immigration leads to a high crime rate, this relationship is far from conclusive. This paper contributes to this line of research by exploring the case of China, a country undergoing rapid and profound urbanization. We collected and analyzed the arrest and prosecution data from the procuratorates of 306 prefectures in China, combined with interviews with nine policemen and public procurators from five provinces. We found that domestic migration in different cities is significantly related to the prosecution rate, while home rentals provide a better predictor of the arrest rate. These findings imply that migration may introduce crime, but may partly through the rental-housing factor. Compared with prosecution cases that are broader in scope, arrest cases indicate graver crimes in China. This suggests that the rental factor may play an important role in the emergence and prevention of crime. The findings call for reflection on urbanization and its unintended consequences. Housing policies should not be considered merely in their economic sense; it should not be neglected as important social policy leverage in crime prevention and social inclusion.

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Is Immigration Responsible for the Crime Drop? An Assessment of the Influence of Immigration on Changes in Violent Crime Between 1990 and 2000

Cited by 197 publications

References 45 publications

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

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

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

Domestic migration, home rentals, and crime rates in China

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