Race, immigration, and homicide in contemporary Europe and the United States: an urban comparison

In this paper we ask a key question: Do immigrants contribute a disproportionate amount of crime beyond what we would expect from native-born populations? We start with a description of the immigration and homicide literature in the United States and Europe and transition into a description of lesso...

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Published in:Crime, law, and social change law, and social change, 2015-12, Vol.64 (4-5), p.291-304
Main Authors: Martinez, Ramiro, Iwama, Janice A., Stowell, Jacob I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Black white relations
Cities
Comparative analysis
Crime
Criminal justice
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
Criminal statistics
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ethnic groups
Ethnicity
Global local relationship
Hispanic Americans
Homicide
Immigrants
Immigration
Law and Criminology
Minority & ethnic groups
Murders & murder attempts
Noncitizens
Political Science
Population
Race
Social Sciences
Studies
Threats
Urban areas
Violence
Violent crime
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Summary:In this paper we ask a key question: Do immigrants contribute a disproportionate amount of crime beyond what we would expect from native-born populations? We start with a description of the immigration and homicide literature in the United States and Europe and transition into a description of lessons learned from this topic in the United States. Specifically, we compare the level of immigration to white, black, and Latino homicide rates between 1985 and 2009. We compare and contrast racial/ethnic/immigrant group specific homicide rates in the cities of Miami and San Diego from 1980 through 2000. We do so since both cities are major entry points into the United States. We compare these findings to European countries, because there are some similarities on immigration into the United States and Europe and, by extension, the study of immigration and violence. In many ways, the study of urban immigration and homicide in the United States is relevant to the study of urban immigration and homicide in Europe. Many of the topics discussed in this paper are likely to be faced by European countries in the future and our hope is that findings from the United States are useful in other contexts.
ISSN:0925-4994
1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-015-9591-5