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Beginning in the 1980s, the United States embarked on a decades-long restructuring of federal laws criminalizing migration and increasing the consequences for migrants engaging in criminal activity. Today, the results are clear: a law enforcement apparatus and immigration prison system propelled...
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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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related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …
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planned electricity outages and crime rates, leveraging a geographic discontinuity in outage duration due to differences in … electricity suppliers within the City of Cape Town, South Africa. We compare crime trends in areas served by the municipal grid … severe. We find that 10 hours per month more outages lead to an increase of 2.6 percent or eight more crime incidents. The …
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