{"id":5797,"date":"2017-07-02T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2017-07-08T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T16:23:33","slug":"immigration-does-not-raise-crime-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=5797","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Does Not Raise Crime: Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“At a time when debate on the subject has intensified, resolution seems simple: systematically examine the substantial and rapidly growing body of scholarship between immigration and crime, and arrive at whatever logical conclusion the evidence supports,” says Charis Kubrin, UCI professor of criminology, law & society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Immigration has no effect on crime, according to a University of California, Irvine professor\u2019s comprehensive examination of fifty-one studies on the topic published between 1994 and 2014.<\/p>\n

The meta-analysis \u2013 conducted by UCI<\/span>\u2019s Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law &<\/span> society, along with Graham Ousey of the College of William &<\/span> Mary \u2013 is the first on the relationship between immigration and crime.<\/p>\n

Appearing in the inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Criminology<\/em>, the review article<\/a> arrives at a time when debate about the subject has intensified.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many of the current executive orders and policies are based on this idea that immigration causes crime: building the border wall, adding thousands of Border Patrol officers. But that narrative is simply false. Overall, immigration does not cause crime. In fact, our analysis reveals that, if anything, immigration causes a drop in crime,\u201d Kubrin said.<\/p>\n

UCI<\/span> notes<\/a> that the reviewed studies most frequently found no relationship between immigration and crime. But among those that did find a correlation, it was 2.5 times more likely that immigration was linked to a reduction in crime than an increase.<\/p>\n

Additionally, it was the most rigorous studies that showed immigration lowering crime. For instance, those that controlled for more outside factors found a stronger negative relationship between immigration and crime, as did \u201clongitudinal\u201d ones, which looked at changes over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese kinds of studies better reflect reality. Because of the strengths of longitudinal research, we think those studies should be given more weight,\u201d Kubrin said. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to hang your hat on any of the findings, you want to do so on the better ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

The analysis also revealed that location played a key role. Immigration was tied to lower crime in well-established, traditional immigrant destinations \u2013 such as Los Angeles and Chicago, which have welcoming enclaves and political support. But in newer destinations, such as Phoenix, immigration was linked to higher crime.<\/p>\n

In new research funded by the National Science Foundation, Kubrin is examining the characteristics of immigrant communities that lead to decreased crime rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019m done asking about whether immigration causes crime. In my mind, this meta-analysis closes the book on that question. We have the answer,\u201d she said. \u201cThe public needs to be done with this question. Now we need to move on to more important questions of why crime is lower in immigrant communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immigration has no effect on crime, according to a University of California, Irvine professor\u2019s comprehensive examination of fifty-one studies on the topic published between 1994 and 2014. The meta-analysis \u2013 conducted by UCI\u2019s Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law & society, along with Graham Ousey of the College of William & Mary \u2013 is the first on the relationship between…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}