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Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …
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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental data from male rural-urban migrants - prison inmates and...
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Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants'...
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This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … not reduce crime rates for violent offenses or property offenses. Our estimates are small and precise, so we can rule out …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where the foreign … immigration on crime but positive and significant effects on crime-related concerns, which in turn triggered preventive behavioral … mechanisms, we examine data on crime-related news on TV and in newspapers, and find a disproportionate coverage of immigrant …
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framework based on a predator/prey model of crime, where endogenous migration decisions and career choices (between licit and … illicit activities) are jointly determined. In this setting, we show that the involvement of migrants in crime crucially … particular, immigrants may display a lower crime rate than natives even if they are less productive on the honest labor market …
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How can the regularization of approximately half a million migrant's impact crime reports in hosting areas? To identify … department-monthly data from crime reports and compare crime outcomes in departments that were granted different average time … a reduction of domestic crime and an increment on sexual crime reports. Both results are in line with qualitative …
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