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Immigration and crime

1 Apr 2017

41

Frances Bernat

Criminology and Criminal Justice

In the context of crime, victimization, and immigration in the United States, research shows that people are afraid of immigrants because they think immigrants are a threat to their safety and engage in many violent and property crimes.



Journal article

Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration: evidence across four decades

18 Dec 2016

47

Lesley Williams Reid, Gail Markle, Saskia Weiss, Charles Jaret, Robert Adelman

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

An investigation into the immigration-crime relationship among metropolitan areas over a 40 year period from 1970 to 2010. Results indicate that immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (e.g., murder) and property (e.g., burglary) crime throughout the time period.

Report

Violent and property crime trends: local and international comparisons

19 Oct 2015

115

Paul Nelson

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

Overview

Aim : To compare crime trends in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, England and Wales, and Scandinavia.

Method : Trend data were extracted from publications and online data repositories. Population counts were used to...

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A snapshot of crime prevention partnerships on Australian and American waterfronts

30 Jul 2012

84

Russell Brewer

Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security

This briefing paper summarises some of the key findings derived from three years of research into crime prevention arrangements on the waterfront. In particular, this briefing probes the partnerships between government and industry stakeholders implemented to enhance safety, security and prevent unlawful activity on the...



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Gender differences in biological and sociological predictors of crime

1 Jan 1997

14

Deborah Denno

Vermont Law Review

This study was conducted by Deborah Denno and is one of the largest longitudinal studies of biological and sociological predictors of crime in America. One of the many goals of this biological study was determining whether there were gender differences among the numerous possible correlates...

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Immigration and crime: what does the research say?

2 Feb 2017

26

Charis Kubrin, Graham C. Ousey, Lesley Williams Reid, Robert Adelman

The Conversation

Immigration-crime research over the past 20 years has widely corroborated the conclusions of a number of early 20th-century presidential commissions that found no backing for the immigration-crime connection. Although there are always individual exceptions, the literature demonstrates that immigrants commit fewer crimes, on average, than...

Briefing paper

Cyber crime 2.0 versus the Twittering classes

6 Mar 2010

382

Matthew L. James

Parliamentary Library (Australia)

This paper contends that the hype surrounding the steep rise of social media networking website use has tended to mask the reality of a corresponding growth in online fraud and crime.

New Web 2.0 technologies may enable inventive interactivity online, but they also foster...