Jacob I Stowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 118459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob I Stowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob I |
| FAMILY NAME | Stowell |
| SIGNATURE | STOWELL J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat
A popular political narrative in the United States depicts immigrants as posing a criminal threat to the nation. This perception persists despite research showing that immigrants do not increase crime rates and may actually contribute to lower crime rates. This study seeks to examine the sources of the perception that immigrants increase crime in the United States. Drawing from research in cognitive psychology, this paper examines the affect heur…
Residential Redlining, Immigration, and Lethal Violence
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a focus on the opportunity structure available in a particular area was key to understanding why negative outcomes are more prevalent in some areas than others. We argue that the practice of residential redlining-discriminatory lending practices of the early 20th century-fundamentally altered the opportunities for conventional success present in neighborhoods thought to be the "riskiest." Scholarship indicates that form…
The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
Extending Immigration and Crime Studies
One of American society's enduring debates centers on the immigration and violent crime relationship. This classic debate is revisited using data for individual homicide incidents and census-tract-level homicides in Miami, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The article starts with these two comparative cases because they mirror the immigration influx, Latino growth, and homicide decline seen throughout the coun…
Latino Crime and Latinos in the Criminal Justice System
Immigration and Crime in an Era of Transformation
Emerging research associated with the “immigration revitalization” perspective suggests that immigration has been labeled inaccurately as a cause of crime in contemporary society. In fact, crime seems to be unexpectedly low in many communities that exhibit high levels of the following classic indicators of social disorganization: residential instability, ethnic heterogeneity, and immigration. But virtually all research conducted to date has been …
The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Intragroup and Intergroup Robbery
Guided by social disorganization theory, this article examines the influence of neighborhood characteristics on intragroup and intergroup robbery, net of spatial proximity in a predominantly native-born Latino/Mexican-origin city—San Antonio, Texas. From census tract and official police robbery data, the findings indicate that intragroup robbery is more common than intergroup robbery. Multivariate results show that variation in black intragroup r…
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
The impact of desegregation on black teachers in the metropolis, 1970-2000
One-third of public school students are racial and/or ethnic minorities. Yet only 14 per cent of teachers represent these groups. Frequently lost in broader debates concerning this disparity is the paradoxical contribution of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Schools were mandated under Brown to desegregate the student body. But the law did not necessarily protect the jobs of black teachers and administrators. Using a unique database…
A Tale of Two Border Cities
Objective. Using Poisson‐based negative binomial regression, we estimate the effect of neighborhood factors on homicides in two cities (San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California) that have large Mexican‐origin populations. Methods. Three independent data sources (official homicide police reports, medical examiner records, and the U.S. Census) are used to construct the dependent homicide, and independent neighborhood, variables. Census tracts r…
School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970-2000
It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short‐lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970–2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by larger declines within districts. Progress was interr…
Immigration and Crime in an Era of Transformation
Emerging research associated with the “immigration revitalization” perspective suggests that immigration has been labeled inaccurately as a cause of crime in contemporary society. In fact, crime seems to be unexpectedly low in many communities that exhibit high levels of the following classic indicators of social disorganization: residential instability, ethnic heterogeneity, and immigration. But virtually all research conducted to date has been …
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970-2000
It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short‐lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970–2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by larger declines within districts. Progress was interr…
A Tale of Two Border Cities
Objective. Using Poisson‐based negative binomial regression, we estimate the effect of neighborhood factors on homicides in two cities (San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California) that have large Mexican‐origin populations. Methods. Three independent data sources (official homicide police reports, medical examiner records, and the U.S. Census) are used to construct the dependent homicide, and independent neighborhood, variables. Census tracts r…
Extending Immigration and Crime Studies
One of American society's enduring debates centers on the immigration and violent crime relationship. This classic debate is revisited using data for individual homicide incidents and census-tract-level homicides in Miami, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The article starts with these two comparative cases because they mirror the immigration influx, Latino growth, and homicide decline seen throughout the coun…
The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Intragroup and Intergroup Robbery
Guided by social disorganization theory, this article examines the influence of neighborhood characteristics on intragroup and intergroup robbery, net of spatial proximity in a predominantly native-born Latino/Mexican-origin city—San Antonio, Texas. From census tract and official police robbery data, the findings indicate that intragroup robbery is more common than intergroup robbery. Multivariate results show that variation in black intragroup r…
The impact of desegregation on black teachers in the metropolis, 1970-2000
One-third of public school students are racial and/or ethnic minorities. Yet only 14 per cent of teachers represent these groups. Frequently lost in broader debates concerning this disparity is the paradoxical contribution of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Schools were mandated under Brown to desegregate the student body. But the law did not necessarily protect the jobs of black teachers and administrators. Using a unique database…
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
Latino Crime and Latinos in the Criminal Justice System
Residential Redlining, Immigration, and Lethal Violence
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a focus on the opportunity structure available in a particular area was key to understanding why negative outcomes are more prevalent in some areas than others. We argue that the practice of residential redlining-discriminatory lending practices of the early 20th century-fundamentally altered the opportunities for conventional success present in neighborhoods thought to be the "riskiest." Scholarship indicates that form…
A Tale of Two Border Cities
Objective. Using Poisson‐based negative binomial regression, we estimate the effect of neighborhood factors on homicides in two cities (San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California) that have large Mexican‐origin populations. Methods. Three independent data sources (official homicide police reports, medical examiner records, and the U.S. Census) are used to construct the dependent homicide, and independent neighborhood, variables. Census tracts r…
School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970-2000
It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short‐lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970–2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by larger declines within districts. Progress was interr…
The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Intragroup and Intergroup Robbery
Guided by social disorganization theory, this article examines the influence of neighborhood characteristics on intragroup and intergroup robbery, net of spatial proximity in a predominantly native-born Latino/Mexican-origin city—San Antonio, Texas. From census tract and official police robbery data, the findings indicate that intragroup robbery is more common than intergroup robbery. Multivariate results show that variation in black intragroup r…
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
The impact of desegregation on black teachers in the metropolis, 1970-2000
One-third of public school students are racial and/or ethnic minorities. Yet only 14 per cent of teachers represent these groups. Frequently lost in broader debates concerning this disparity is the paradoxical contribution of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Schools were mandated under Brown to desegregate the student body. But the law did not necessarily protect the jobs of black teachers and administrators. Using a unique database…
Immigration and Crime in an Era of Transformation
Emerging research associated with the “immigration revitalization” perspective suggests that immigration has been labeled inaccurately as a cause of crime in contemporary society. In fact, crime seems to be unexpectedly low in many communities that exhibit high levels of the following classic indicators of social disorganization: residential instability, ethnic heterogeneity, and immigration. But virtually all research conducted to date has been …
Extending Immigration and Crime Studies
One of American society's enduring debates centers on the immigration and violent crime relationship. This classic debate is revisited using data for individual homicide incidents and census-tract-level homicides in Miami, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The article starts with these two comparative cases because they mirror the immigration influx, Latino growth, and homicide decline seen throughout the coun…
Latino Crime and Latinos in the Criminal Justice System
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat
A popular political narrative in the United States depicts immigrants as posing a criminal threat to the nation. This perception persists despite research showing that immigrants do not increase crime rates and may actually contribute to lower crime rates. This study seeks to examine the sources of the perception that immigrants increase crime in the United States. Drawing from research in cognitive psychology, this paper examines the affect heur…
Residential Redlining, Immigration, and Lethal Violence
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a focus on the opportunity structure available in a particular area was key to understanding why negative outcomes are more prevalent in some areas than others. We argue that the practice of residential redlining-discriminatory lending practices of the early 20th century-fundamentally altered the opportunities for conventional success present in neighborhoods thought to be the "riskiest." Scholarship indicates that form…
Criminology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Immigration (6 works)