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

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 “preemerging” immigrant gateway city t...

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Published inSociological perspectives Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 647 - 672
Main Authors Stansfield, Richard, Akins, Scott, Rumbaut, Rubén G., Hammer, Roger B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA University of California Press 01.12.2013
SAGE Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Burglary
Cities
Crime
Crime In The Americas
Crime Rates
Hispanic Americans
Hispanics
Immigrant populations
Immigrants
Immigration
Larceny
Latin American Cultural Groups
Migrant communities
Motor vehicles
Neighborhoods
Noncitizens
Police
Property
Property crimes
Regression analysis
Texas
Theft
U.S.A
Violent crimes
United States > US
Austin Texas
social disorganization
immigration
crime
social ecology
communities
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Summary: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 “preemerging” immigrant gateway city to the United States. The changing population dynamics in Austin provide an excellent opportunity to study the effect of recent immigration on crime in a target destination for recent immigrants. Although interest in the relationship between violent crime and immigration to new locales is evidenced by recent studies that show less favorable outcomes for Latinos in new destinations, little attention has been directed to the relationship of recent immigration with serious property crime in new destinations. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation indicate that recent immigration is not associated with an increased rate of burglary, larceny, or motor vehicle theft once important structural predictors of crime are controlled for.
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ISSN:0731-1214
1533-8673
DOI:10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.647