Citation

Stowell JI, Martinez R. Homicide Stud. 2009; 13(3): 315-324.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1088767909335869

PMID

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Abstract

The growing body of research on immigration and crime consistently finds that immigration, contrary to both criminological theory and popular sentiment, is not related to higher levels of lethal violence. Instead, a common finding in the literature is that immigration predicts lower levels of violence, and homicide in particular. The primary objective of the present study is an initial test of hypotheses associated with the Latino paradox, by focusing on the degree to which the impact of immigration operates differentially as a product of ethnicity. Using neighborhood-level homicide data and ethnically disaggregated indicators of immigration, these are consistent with the expectations of the Latino paradox.