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Title: Assimilation of Immigrants and Incarceration, 1900-1930

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Using a newly constructed individual-level dataset, we analyze the relative incarceration probabilities of native and foreign-born men between 1900 and 1930. We find that the foreign-born were less likely to be incarcerated than natives even after controlling for age and literacy. However, immigrants assimilated rapidly to the incarceration patterns of the native born. The likelihood that an immigrant was incarcerated was increasing in his time spent in the U.S. and the children of immigrants had incarceration rates that were the same or even higher than those of their peers with native parents. Finally, we find that odds of incarceration were lower for immigrants who arrived in the 1920s after the imposition of immigration restrictions and quotas than for those who had arrived earlier.

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Authors: Moehling, Carolyn M.; Morrison Piehl, Anne

Publisher: Rutgers University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Migration and Immigration

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