Immigration, Economic Disadvantage, and Homicide A Community-level Analysis of Austin, Texas

In this article, the effect of recent immigration on homicide rates across city of Austin, Texas census tracts is examined. Since 1980, Austin's recent immigrant population increased by more than 580% across the metropolitan area and it is now considered a “pre-emerging” immigrant gateway city...

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Published inHomicide studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 307 - 314
Main Authors Akins, Scott, Rumbaut, Rubén G., Stansfield, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2009
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Immigration
Metropolitan areas
Murders & murder attempts
Noncitizens
Poverty
Violence
United States > US
Austin Texas
USA, Texas, Austin
disadvantage
immigration
homicide
violence
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Summary:In this article, the effect of recent immigration on homicide rates across city of Austin, Texas census tracts is examined. Since 1980, Austin's recent immigrant population increased by more than 580% across the metropolitan area and it is now considered a “pre-emerging” immigrant gateway city to the United States. Therefore the changing population dynamics in Austin provide an excellent opportunity to study the effect of recent immigration on homicide. After controlling for structural predictors of homicide and correcting for spatial autocorrelation, our findings indicate that recent immigration is not associated with homicide.
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ISSN:1088-7679
1552-6720
DOI:10.1177/1088767909336814