According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in … 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of … for these fears? We exploit the variation in the geographic and temporal distribution of refugees across U.S. counties to …

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate …

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in … 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of … for these fears? We exploit the variation in the geographic and temporal distribution of refugees across U.S. counties to …

Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers … increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

locational restrictions and find no impact on crime except for migrationspecific offenses. For the group of recognized refugees … refugees and the overall crime rate, which is driven by non-violent property crimes and frauds. The empirical results prove …Does refugee migration cause crime? I address this question drawing on recent refugee migration to Germany during the …

relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … crime incidents committed by refugees; there is no change in crimes committed by natives on those islands. We find a …Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The …

This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both … native Colombians and Venezuelan refugees seeing higher victimization rates. Violent crimes remained unaffected. This is the …

relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … crime incidents committed by refugees; there is no change in crimes committed by natives on those islands. We find a …Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The …

migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle … natives and refugees) falls due to the arrival of the refugees. This finding also applies to several types of crime; the only …Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic …