Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …