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Immigrant Organizations and Neighborhood Crime

NCJ Number
305267
Journal
Crime & Delinquency Volume: 68 Issue: 11 Dated: October 2022 Pages: 1948-1976
Date Published
October 2022
Length
29 pages
Annotation

We examine the impact of immigrant-serving organizations on neighborhood crime in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, while accounting for other community correlates of crime as well as potential endogeneity; and we estimate longitudinal negative binomial regression models that test for the main, mediating, and moderating effects of immigrant-serving organizations.

 

Abstract

We found that immigrant-serving organizations generally have crime-reducing effects for all types of crime. We also find that high immigrant concentration is associated with lower levels of crime in general, and this effect is moderated by the number of organizations, which underlines the importance of accounting for these organizations when studying the nexus of immigrant concentration and neighborhood crime. (Publisher abstract provided)

Date Published: October 1, 2022