Data and code for: Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born U.S. citizens in Texas
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Michael Light, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Version: View help for Version V1
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Project Citation:
Light, Michael . Data and code for: Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born U.S. citizens in Texas. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-10-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E124923V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest
data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of
undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens
between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially
lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range
of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, U.S.-borns are over
two times more likely arrested for violent crimes, two and half times more
likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over four times more likely to arrested
for property crimes. In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable
or decreasing over this period. The differences between U.S.-born citizens and
undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the
broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as
“undocumented” at arrest, and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as
measures of crime.
Funding Sources:
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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2019-R2-CX-0058);
National Science Foundation (1849297)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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illegal immigrants;
citizens;
criminality
Geographic Coverage:
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Texas
Time Period(s):
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1/1/2012 – 12/31/2018
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data
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