[USA] Displaced, dispossessed, or lawless? Examining the link between ethnicity, immigration, and violence
Aggression and Violent Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2007, Pages 564-581. Theme: Crime Classification and Offender Typologies
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Jacob I. Stowell, Ramiro Martinez Jr
"The goal of this paper is to build on the growing body of research on immigration and crime in two important ways. The first is to employ more specific measures of immigration than have been used in previous analyses. Additionally, this research advances current knowledge on the link between immigration and crime by using more comprehensive crime indicators, including measures of non-lethal violence, which allows for a test of the degree to which the impact of immigration on violence varies across crime types. The findings support the calls for a refinement of the disorganisation theory, one that is sensitive to the differences among the foreign-born population and one that does not assume that immigration is a causally associated with levels of criminal violence."
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