Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown that immigrants have lower rates of involvement in … involved in crime. In 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity for all ages except …

This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the recent episode of immigration from Venezuela. The key finding is that, following the closing and then re-opening of … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging … have reduced the rate of crime, through the incapacitation of criminals and through the deterrent effect of potential … arrest and imprisonment. But administrative records show no such drop in crime and the victims survey shows a fall far below …

Few empirical studies of the economics of crime have doubted the deterrent effects of the legal sanctions on crime …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime … labor force participation rates, on seven major categories of crime, using the quarterly crime-rate data for the United …

beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …

Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …