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Irrational Fear or Cause for Concern? The Effects of Hispanic Immigration on Crime Rates in Tucson, Arizona

Creator:

Algara, Carlos

Abstract:

The popular perception, throughout the United States of America, is that there is a positive relationship between recent immigration and crime. The more immigration in an urbanized setting, the more violent crime occurs. Crime is socially constructed to be associated with large influxes of “outsiders” into the community. America has...

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Capstone Project

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. Akins, representing Sociology Dwaine E. Plaza, representing Sociology Michelle L. Inderbitzin
Unsubstantiated fears : assessing the effects of recent immigration on part I index crimes

Creator:

Stansfield, Richard

Abstract:

In this paper I examine the impact of recent immigration, in addition to other community predictors on community counts of violent and property crimes in Austin, Texas, a multi-ethnic city. I combine data from the 2000 US census of population and housing with census tract level uniform crime report data...

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Capstone Project

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, representing Sociology Michelle L. Inderbitzen, representing Sociology Dwaine Plaza