ArticleCriminology : an interdisciplinary journal2017
DOES UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRATION INCREASE VIOLENT CRIME?
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- Behind the Protests: Lessons From My Undocumented Patients.Family medicine · 2026Article
- The double-edged sword of scapegoration: how anti-immigrant hostility harms both immigrants and host societies.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Immigration Politics and Policymaking in the USA (2017-2021): Examining the Effect of Geopolitics on Public Attitude Towards Immigration Policies.Journal of international migration and integration · 2022Article
- Trauma Exposure and Trauma Symptoms as Predictors of Police Perceptions in Latinx Youths.Psychology of violence · 2022Article
- Proximity to the U.S./Mexico border, alcohol outlet density and population-based sociodemographic correlates of spatially aggregated violent crimes in California.Annals of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- "They Dumped Me Like Trash": The Social and Psychological Toll of Victimization on Latino Day Laborers' Lives.American journal of community psychology · 2020Article
- Drugs, Crime, and Aggravated Felony Deportations: Moral Panic Theory and the Legal Construction of the "Criminal Alien".Critical criminology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration. As a result, fundamental questions about whether undocumented immigration increases violent crime remain unanswered. In an attempt to address this gap, we combine newly developed estimates of the unauthorized population with multiple data sources to capture the criminal, socioeconomic, and demographic context of all 50 states and Washington, DC, from 1990 to 2014 to provide the first longitudinal analysis of the macro-level relationship between undocumented immigration and violence. The results from fixed-effects regression models reveal that undocumented immigration does not increase violence. Rather, the relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime is generally negative, although not significant in all specifications. Using supplemental models of victimization data and instrumental variable methods, we find little evidence that these results are due to decreased reporting or selective migration to avoid crime. We consider the theoretical and policy implications of these findings against the backdrop of the dramatic increase in immigration enforcement in recent decades.
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