Ethnic Identities, Immigration, and Crime: An Individual Level Assessment of Criminal Victimization and Ethnic Immigrants

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Abstract

Academic interest in contemporary immigration and crime in the United States continues to garner robust interest. While an academic consensus has been formed on the relationship between macro level immigration and structural level crime (Martinez and Lee 2011), less is known about the relationship between individual level immigration and micro level criminal victimization experiences. Using data from the Add Health, my study examines this relationship between individuals from select ethnicities and their self-reported victimization experiences. Analytic results show important distinctions of the individual level immigration and crime relationship among ethnicities, as well as generations.

Author

• Allen Wong, Wentworth Institute of Technology