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Migrant Criminality and Incarceration Rates
PPCI - Crime, Corrections, and California (immigrants are underrepresented in California prisons
compared to their representation in the overall population. U.S.-born men have an institutionalization rate that
is 10 times higher than that of foreign-born men [4.2% vs. 0.42%]. 2-2008)
IPC- The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation (studying 30 years of data, the report finds immigrants have the lowest rates of imprisonment for criminal convictions of all ethnic/racial groups and have led to overall lowered crime rates in many US cities. Criminality increases with each successive generation as immigrant children assimilate into US society, 3-2007)
Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment (immigrants have the lowest rates of imprisonment for criminal convictions in American society, University of California –Irvine, June 2006)
Context-Rethinking Crime and Immigration (Immigration - even if illegal - is associated with lower crime rates in most disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Study found a significantly lower rate of violence among Mexican-Americans compared to blacks and whites In particular, first-generation immigrants (those born outside the United States) were 45 percent less likely to commit violence than third-generation Americans… Second-generation immigrants were 22 percent less likely to commit violence than the third generation. This pattern held true for non-Hispanic whites and blacks as well. The study further showed living in a neighborhood of concentrated immigration was directly associated with lower violence … Immigration thus appeared “protective” against violence. "Context", Winter, 2008, Robert J Sampson,Harvard University)
Migrant Recidivism
Rand - Are Deportable Aliens a Unique Threat to Public Safety, Comparing the Recidivism of Deportable and Nondeportable Aliens (Deportable immigrants released from the Los AngelesCounty jail system were no more likely to be rearrested than similar nondeportable immigrants released during the same period. Immigrants who were deportable — deemed so because they entered theUnited States illegally, overstayed their visas or committed other violations — were no more likely to be rearrested during the study period when compared to similar legal or naturalized immigrants. 2-2008)