Re-examining the relationship between Latino immigration and racial/ethnic violence |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, 65 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;2. Department for Management of Non-communicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland;1. Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI;2. NAME Ad Hoc Committee for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease;3. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Farmington, CT;1. Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;2. Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;3. Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;4. Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;5. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;6. Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;7. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
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| Abstract: | Whether immigration increases crime has long been a source of political debate and scholarly interest. Despite widespread public opinion to the contrary, the weight of evidence suggests the most recent wave of U.S. immigration has not increased crime, and may have actually helped reduce criminal violence. However, with recent shifts in immigrant settlement patterns away from traditional receiving destinations, a series of contemporary studies suggests a more complicated immigration-crime relationship, whereby Latino immigration is said to increase violence in newer immigrant destinations (but not in established destinations) and has varied effects for different racial/ethnic groups. With few exceptions, these more recent studies rely on cross-sectional analyses, thus limiting their ability to examine the longitudinal nexus between Latino immigration and violent crime. This study brings to bear the first longitudinal data set to test the relationship between immigration and racial/ethnic homicide in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2010. Results from bivariate longitudinal associations and multivariate fixed effects models are contrary to recent findings – Latino immigration is generally associated with decreases in homicide victimization for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in both established and non-established immigrant destinations, though these associations are not significant in all cases. |
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| Keywords: | Latino immigration Homicide Race/ethnicity |
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