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Title: Displaced, dispossessed, or lawless? Examining the link between ethnicity, immigration, and violence

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: The goal of this paper is to build on the growing body of research on immigration and crime in two important ways. The first is toemploy more specific measures of immigration than have been used in previous analyses. Specifically, this analysis includes measuresof ethnicity, indicators that contain information about both nativity and country of origin, which have rarely been used in priorresearch. Using ethnic-origin as a means of classifying a neighborhood's foreign-born population will promote a more nuancedunderstanding of the differential impacts of immigration on levels of violent criminal offending. Additionally, this research advancescurrent knowledge on the link between immigration and crime by using more comprehensive crime indicators, including measures ofnon-lethal violence, which allows for a test of the degree to which the impact of immigration on violence varies across crime types.Using data for Miami and Houston, two immigrant destination cities, the results illustrate the need for researchers to be sensitive toethnic differences among foreign-born populations. The findings support the calls for a refinement of the disorganization theory, onethat is sensitive to the differences among the foreign-born population and one that does not assume that immigration is a causallyassociated with levels of criminal violence.

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Authors: Stowell, Jacob I.; Martinez, Ramiro

Periodical (Full): Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Volume: 12

Pages: 564-581

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States