TY - JOUR
T1 - Does Immigration Increase Homicide? Negative Evidence From Three Border Cities
AU - Lee, Matthew T.
AU - Martinez, Ram iro
AU - Rosenfeld, Richard
N1 - Understanding the complex relationship between immigration and crime was once a core concern of American sociology. Yet the extensive post-1965 wave of immigration to the United States has done little to rekindle scholarly interest in this topic, even as politicians and other public figures advocate public policies to restrict immigration as a means of preventing crime.
PY - 2001/9/1
Y1 - 2001/9/1
N2 - Understanding the complex relationship between immigration and crime was once a core concern of American sociology. Yet the extensive post-1965 wave of immigration to the United States has done little to rekindle scholarly interest in this topic, even as politicians and other public figures advocate public policies to restrict immigration as a means of preventing crime. Although both popular accounts and sociological theory predict that immigration should increase crime in areas where immigrants settle, this study of Miami, El Paso, and San Diego neighborhoods shows that, controlling for other influences, immigration generally does not increase levels of homicide among Latinos and African Americans. Our results not only challenge stereotypes of the “criminal immigrant” but also the core criminological notion that immigration, as a social process, disorganizes communities and increases crime.
AB - Understanding the complex relationship between immigration and crime was once a core concern of American sociology. Yet the extensive post-1965 wave of immigration to the United States has done little to rekindle scholarly interest in this topic, even as politicians and other public figures advocate public policies to restrict immigration as a means of preventing crime. Although both popular accounts and sociological theory predict that immigration should increase crime in areas where immigrants settle, this study of Miami, El Paso, and San Diego neighborhoods shows that, controlling for other influences, immigration generally does not increase levels of homicide among Latinos and African Americans. Our results not only challenge stereotypes of the “criminal immigrant” but also the core criminological notion that immigration, as a social process, disorganizes communities and increases crime.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01780.x
U2 - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01780.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01780.x
M3 - Article
VL - 42
JO - Sociological Quarterly
JF - Sociological Quarterly
ER -