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New Study Shows Immigration Reduces Violent Crime

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Study Shows Immigration Reduces Violent Crime During the 1990s immigration rates reached record levels, leading to speculation about the relationship between immigration and crime. Using data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and U.S. Census Bureau, Tim Wadsworth, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His study shows that cities that experienced higher influxes of foreign-born and new immigrant populations also experienced lower rates of homicides and robberies. Specifically, Wadsworth concludes that after considering other factors, growth among immigrants was responsible for roughly 9.3 percent of the decline of homicides and 22.2 percent of the decrease in robbery rates. He attributes this to what is referred to as the "healthy immigrant thesis," which points to protective cultural and neighborhood factors often found in immigrant communities and families...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).