Immigration and crime: Assessing a contentious issue

GC Ousey, CE Kubrin - Annual Review of Criminology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a
deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent …

The impact of neighborhoods on intimate partner violence and victimization

GM Pinchevsky, EM Wright - Trauma, violence, & abuse, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) and victimization is widespread across
disciplines. To date, the majority of research underscores the importance of individual-level …

Does undocumented immigration increase violent crime?

MT Light, T Miller - Criminology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and
crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration …

Does immigration enforcement reduce crime? Evidence from secure communities

TJ Miles, AB Cox - The Journal of Law and Economics, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Prior research investigates whether immigrants commit more crimes than native-born
people. Yet the central policy used to regulate immigration—detention and deportation—has …

Is Immigration Responsible for the Crime Drop? An Assessment of the Influence of Immigration on Changes in Violent Crime Between 1990 and 2000*

T Wadsworth - Social Science Quarterly, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. The idea that immigration increases crime rates has historically occupied an
important role in criminological theory and has been central to the public and political …

Neighborhood immigration, violence, and city-level immigrant political opportunities

CJ Lyons, MB Vélez… - American Sociological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a multilevel comparative framework, we propose that politically receptive city contexts
facilitate the viability of marginalized neighborhoods. To illustrate this proposition, we …

Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration: Evidence across four decades

R Adelman, LW Reid, G Markle, S Weiss… - Journal of ethnicity in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration
are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical …

Undocumented immigrants as perceived criminal threat: A test of the minority threat perspective

X Wang - Criminology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The link between immigration and crime has garnered considerable attention from
researchers. Although the weight of evidence suggests that immigration is not linked to …

The effects of immigrant concentration on changes in neighborhood crime rates

JM MacDonald, JR Hipp, C Gill - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2013 - Springer
Objectives This study investigated the extent to which immigrant concentration is associated
with reductions in neighborhood crime rates in the City of Los Angeles. Methods A potential …

The effects of neighborhood context on exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACE) among adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system: Latent classes …

KT Wolff, C Cuevas, J Intravia, MT Baglivio… - Journal of youth and …, 2018 - Springer
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as a key risk factor associated
with a wide range of negative life outcomes, including juvenile delinquency. Much less work …