On the association between undocumented immigration and crime in the United States

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gunadi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Us States ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Immigration And Crime

Abstract Approximately 11 million undocumented individuals live in the United States. At the same time, there are concerns that the presence of undocumented immigrants may contribute to an increase in crime rates. In this article, I examine the institutionalization rate of undocumented immigrants and quantify the change in crime rates attributable to undocumented immigration. The analysis yields a few main results. First, despite possessing characteristics usually associated with crime, undocumented immigrants are 33% less likely to be institutionalized compared to US natives. Second, there is no evidence that undocumented immigrants who have spent more time in the USA are more likely to be institutionalized compared to those who have been in the USA for a shorter time. There is evidence, however, that arriving at a younger age is associated with higher institutionalization rate. Finally, overall property and violent crime rates across US states are not statistically significantly increased by undocumented immigration.

Inside Story

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Immigrant Rights Movement

This chapter reveals the centrality of narrative and storytelling to the sociopolitical status of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. It offers a theorization of reclaimant narratives by illuminating the experiential, partial, public, oppositional, and incondensable nature of the stories undocumented activists tell. Despite attempts to essentialize and distill this narrative, the reality of undocumented immigration is a complicated story with no easy one-size-fits all tagline. This reality complicates the process of public education about immigration and works both for and against immigrants who use their stories as activism. The emergence of voices of undocumented storytellers in the immigrant rights movement has the capacity to engender empathy, motivate listeners, and even advance reforms in laws and policy. But these narratives also have the capacity to decelerate the movement by detracting from systematic problems and the tangible actions needed to advance reform.

Undocumented College Students in the United States: A category in need of further analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Deguili
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Undocumented Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Undocumented College Students

This paper concerns itself with a subset of undocumented immigrants, that of undocumented students in the United States. While many sociologists have engaged with undocumented immigration in general, not much attention has been paid to this growing group and when it has been done these students were treated as a unified and undiversified category. In this letter, instead, I intend to outline some of the ways in which the label of undocumented student and its consequences may vary greatly depending on a number of different elements, among them: the different legal status of various family members, the different methods of entry into the country, family structure, and the influence of the communities that surround them.

In Pursuit of an Audience

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-151
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

This chapter turns from undocumented creators to their audiences to illuminate how immigrant storytellers conceive of and characterize US citizens who encounter reclaimant narratives. The narrators describe their frustration with citizens’ apparent lack of knowledge about immigrant rights and policy. I illustrate the link between US audiences’ perceptions of immigrants and the tropes present in mediated portrayals of immigrants in public discourse, and the narrators describe their own reactions to these portrayals. Finally, in response to the question “What do you wish US citizens knew about undocumented immigrants?” they explain why it is so important that citizens recognize immigrants as human, take a bigger picture view of the historical reality of undocumented immigration, acknowledge the factors that lead immigrants to give up their homes and communities and flee to the United States, and understand the privilege of citizenship.

scholarly journals Distribution dynamics of property crime rates in the United States

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 2613-2630
Author(s):  
Alessandro Moro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Strong Convergence ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Distribution Dynamics ◽  
Us States ◽  
Region Model ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Distribution Dynamics Approach

Using crime data for the 48 continental and conterminous US states and the distribution dynamics approach, this paper detects two distinct phases in the evolution of the property crime distribution: a period of strong convergence (1971–1980) is followed by a tendency towards divergence and bimodality (1981–2010). Moreover, the analysis reveals that differences in income per capita and police can explain the emergence of a bimodal shape in the distribution of property crime: in fact, after conditioning on these variables, the bimodality completely disappears. This empirical evidence is consistent with the predictions of a two-region model, that stresses the importance of income inequality in determining the dynamics of the property crime distribution.

scholarly journals LEGAL REGULATION OF MARRIAGE IN FACT IN RUSSIA AND THE USA

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Анна Назарова ◽  
Anna Nazarova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Us States ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa

This article is devoted to the analysis of legal regulation of marriage in fact in the Russian Federation and the United States. The purpose of this work is due to an increase in the number of marriage in fact and as a consequence the need for legal regulation of these relations. For a comprehensive study the author uses comparative legal method that takes into account the experience of not only Russia, but also foreign states. The author examines the legal regulation of marriage in fact in Russia and the United States; defines the legal norms, which is applied for the regulation of relations between the actual spouses, current Russian legislation and the legislation of the states of the USA. In the issue the researcher comes to the conclusion that neither in Russia, nor in the US states in the regulation of marriage in fact, special marriage and family provisions are not applied. At the same time the factual spouses are under legal protection. In Russia, the legal regulation of the relations developing between the actual spouses, no different from the regulation of corresponding relations of other persons. In some US states the actual spouses have special rights and duties, the scope of which is substantially less than the amount of the rights and duties of legal spouses.

scholarly journals The Effects Of Education On Alabama’s Violent Crime Rate

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Richard Fast
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Problem Analysis ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Violent Crime Rate

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of the effect of education on violent crime, specifically in the U.S. state of Alabama. The main purpose of the research is to determine whether more education leads to a decrease in the rate of violent crime. Systematization of the literary sources and approaches for reducing the violent crime rate indicate that increasing education, particularly the number of people with at least a high school or associate’s degree, can be one influential tool in cutting crime. The relevance of this scientific problem analysis is that Alabama has one of the highest violent crime rates in the United States according to crime watch sources, and Alabama residents desire safer neighborhoods. Investigation of what effect education has on crime in the paper is carried out in the following logical sequence: Introduction, literature review, data and analysis, and conclusion. Methodological tools of the research methods include econometric analysis using log-linear, linear-log, and log-log models covering population, educational attainment, violent crime rate, and unemployment rate of each county over five years: 2011-2015. The object of research are all the counties of Alabama, because namely they have some of the highest crime rates in the United States. Coincidentally, Alabama also has one of the lowest educational attainment rates in the country; the average American has more years of formal schooling than the average Alabama resident, and the crime rates of all other U.S. states compared to Alabama reflect this important fact. The paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of how more education impacted the violent crime rate in that state, which showed that, with one exception, more years of schooling does indeed result in less violent crime. The research empirically confirms and theoretically proves that, in the majority of cases, a better educated populace is less likely to commit violent crime.The results of the research can be useful for educators, law enforcement, and criminal justice practitioners.

scholarly journals Epidemiology of Reopening in the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, Europe and Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqi Zhang ◽  
Alina Oltean ◽  
Scott Nichols ◽  
Fuad Odeh ◽  
Fei Zhong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
The United States ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Us States ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Us ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Since the discovery of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), COVID-19 has become a global healthcare and economic crisis. The United States (US) and Europe exhibited wide impacts from the virus with more than six million cases by the time of our analysis. To inhibit spread, stay-at-home orders and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were instituted. Beginning late April 2020, some US states, European, and Asian countries lifted restrictions and started the reopening phases. In this study, the changes of confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were analyzed after reopening for 11 countries and 40 US states using an interrupted time series analysis. Additionally, the distribution of these categories was further analyzed by age due to the known increased risk in elderly patients. Reopening had varied effects on COVID-19 cases depending on the region. Recent increases in cases did not fully translate into increased deaths. Eight countries had increased cases after reopening while only two countries showed the same trend in deaths. In the US, 30 states had observed increases in cases while only seven observed increased deaths. In addition, we found that states with later reopening dates were more likely to have significant decreases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Furthermore, age distributions through time were analyzed in relation to COVID-19 in the US. Younger age groups typically had an increased share of cases after reopening.

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