RT Article T1 Using estimates of undocumented immigrants to study the immigration-crime relationship JF Journal of crime and justice VO 44 IS 4 SP 375 OP 400 A1 Adelman, Robert M. A2 Yang, Yulin A2 Reid, Lesley Williams A2 Bachmeier, James D. A2 Maciag, Mike LA English YR 2021 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1783529393 AB The debate about undocumented immigration and its potential relation to crime continues to boil in the United States. We study this relationship by using two sets of estimates for the 2014 undocumented foreign-born population in U.S. metropolitan areas acquired from the Pew Research Center and the Migration Population Institute, 2013-2015 FBI Uniform Crime Report data, and 2011-2015 American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, to model the association between undocumented immigration and violent and property crime. Findings are consistent across all estimates of metropolitan undocumented populations. Net of relevant covariates, we find negative effects of undocumented immigration on the overall property crime rate, larceny, and burglary; effects in models using violent crime measures as the outcomes are statistically non-significant. Although the results are based on cross-sectional data, they mirror other research findings that immigration either reduces or has no impact on crime, on average, and contribute to a growing literature on the relationship between immigration and crime. K1 U.S. Metropolitan Areas K1 Crime K1 Immigration DO 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1819375