Immigrant status, citizenship, and victimization risk in the United States: New findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Until recently, national-level data on criminal victimization in the United States did not include information on immigrant or citizenship status of respondents. This data-infrastructure limitation has hindered scientific understanding of whether immigrants are more or less likely than native-born A...

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Authors: Xie, Min (Author) ; Baumer, Eric P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 59, Issue: 4, Pages: 610-644
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