Immigration, Economic Disadvantage, and Homicide A Community-level Analysis of Austin, Texas

被引:36
作者
Akins, Scott [1 ]
Rumbaut, Ruben G. [2 ]
Stansfield, Richard [3 ]
机构
[1] Oregon State Univ, Dept Sociol, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[2] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA USA
[3] Oregon State Univ, Publ Policy Program, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
关键词
immigration; homicide; violence; disadvantage; SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION; CRIME;
D O I
10.1177/1088767909336814
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
In this article, the effect of recent immigration on homicide rates across city of Austin, Texas census tracts is examined. Since 1980, Austin's recent immigrant population increased by more than 580% across the metropolitan area and it is now considered a "pre-emerging" immigrant gateway city to the United States. Therefore the changing population dynamics in Austin provide an excellent opportunity to study the effect of recent immigration on homicide. After controlling for structural predictors of homicide and correcting for spatial autocorrelation, our findings indicate that recent immigration is not associated with homicide.
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