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Extending Immigration and Crime Studies: National Implications and Local Settings

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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.

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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2012

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p. 174-191

Language

English

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0002-7162

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Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 174-191

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Immigration
violence

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