This study purpose is to verify if there is an association between foreign immigration and crime. In doing this, the study investigates also some satellite aspects revolving around this possible association: the range of offences affected by immigration, the relationship between immigrant and native crime, and whether the immigration impact on crime is direct or indirect. The present study has addressed these issues by both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal analysis, the latter including an instrument. The study is based on data of the Italian provinces. Italy represents a critical case for studying the migration– crime relationship, because in this country the rise in foreign immigration has been sudden and its pace feverish. The cross-sectional analysis findings show that crime intensities are affected by time-invariant factors and marginally by immigration. On the contrary, the longitudinal analysis shows that variations in immigration had a positive impact on both the most serious and the most common offences, on property crimes as well as on crimes of violence. There is no evidence of indirect effects of immigration on crime or of a link with native crime. In contrast to previous literature regarding the U.S., Canada, and Australia, these results suggest that a spiralling immigration can affect crime. In terms of methods, these findings show that the standard synchronic analysis models can be biased by non-observed factors and that therefore cross-sectional time-series models can offer significant advantages.

Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective / Solivetti, Luigi M.. - In: QUALITY & QUANTITY. - ISSN 0033-5177. - STAMPA. - 52:4(2018), pp. 1779-1805. [10.1007/s11135-017-0566-8]

Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective

Solivetti, Luigi M.
2018

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This study purpose is to verify if there is an association between foreign immigration and crime. In doing this, the study investigates also some satellite aspects revolving around this possible association: the range of offences affected by immigration, the relationship between immigrant and native crime, and whether the immigration impact on crime is direct or indirect. The present study has addressed these issues by both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal analysis, the latter including an instrument. The study is based on data of the Italian provinces. Italy represents a critical case for studying the migration– crime relationship, because in this country the rise in foreign immigration has been sudden and its pace feverish. The cross-sectional analysis findings show that crime intensities are affected by time-invariant factors and marginally by immigration. On the contrary, the longitudinal analysis shows that variations in immigration had a positive impact on both the most serious and the most common offences, on property crimes as well as on crimes of violence. There is no evidence of indirect effects of immigration on crime or of a link with native crime. In contrast to previous literature regarding the U.S., Canada, and Australia, these results suggest that a spiralling immigration can affect crime. In terms of methods, these findings show that the standard synchronic analysis models can be biased by non-observed factors and that therefore cross-sectional time-series models can offer significant advantages.
2018
Crime; Crime determinants; Immigration; Instrumental variables; Longitudinal analysis; Natives; Statistics and Probability; Social Sciences (all)
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Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective / Solivetti, Luigi M.. - In: QUALITY & QUANTITY. - ISSN 0033-5177. - STAMPA. - 52:4(2018), pp. 1779-1805. [10.1007/s11135-017-0566-8]
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