RT Article
T1 Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 65
IS 2
SP 365
OP 386
A1 Kubrin, Charis Elizabeth
A1 Luo, Xiaoshuang Iris
A1 Hipp, John R.
A2 Luo, Xiaoshuang Iris
A2 Hipp, John R.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1925354687
AB Research finds that immigration and crime are not related across neighbourhoods, contrary to social disorganization theory and consistent with the immigration revitalization thesis. This research, however, is largely silent as to any possible nonlinear effects. Yet social theory offers sound reasons for why the immigration-crime association may be nonlinear; explanations, including immigrant/ethnic enclave theory and immigrant victimization theory, underscore potential concentration effects—albeit in different ways. Using a novel dataset with information on crime in over 15,000 neighbourhoods across a diverse range of US cities, we examine whether or not the immigration-crime association is nonlinear. We find that for both violent and property crime, a nonlinear relationship best captures the relationship. In additional analyses, we determine the theoretical perspective with which the findings are most consistent.
K1 Immigration
K1 Crime
K1 Neighbourhoods
K1 enclave
K1 Victimization
K1 nonlinear
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae045