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Extending Immigration and Crime Studies

National Implications and Local Settings

Bibliographic Data

ID5742226
AuthorsRamiro Martínez (Institute of Criminology), Jacob I Stowell
Year2012
Volume641
Issue1
Pages174-191
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002716212437363
OpenAlexW2150448001
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited17

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 country since 1980. These findings are also replicated in an analysis of the immigration and crime influx across the nation using U.S. counties in 2000. In sum, results from comparative cases, different time points, homicide motivations, and individual/community/national levels-and even controlling for Latino regional concentration-are reported. The findings were clear and unequivocal: more immigrants did not mean more homicide, and that outcome held across time and place

Census · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Homicide · Immigration · Immigration and crime · Immigration policy · Medical emergency · Miami · Poison control · Political science · Population · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Demography · Law · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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Citation span2013 - 2025 (13)
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