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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Creator:

Stansfield, Richard, Akins, Scott, Rumbaut, Ruben G., and Hammer, Roger B.

Abstract:

In this article the authors examine the impact of recent immigration on rates of serious property crime across communities in Austin, Texas. The greater Austin foreign-born population has increased by more than 580 percent since 1980, and Austin is considered a “pre-emerging” immigrant gateway city to the United States. The...

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