Publication Cover
Sociological Spectrum
Mid-South Sociological Association
Volume 37, 2017 - Issue 6
274
Views
11
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Revisiting Violence in New Destinations: Exploring the Drop in Latino Homicide Victimization in Emerging Immigrant Communities, 2000 to 2010

, &

References

  • Alba, R. and V. Nee. 2003. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Allen, J. and J. M. Cancino. 2012. “Social Disorganization, Latinos, and Juvenile Crime in the Texas Borderlands.” Journal of Criminal Justice 40:153–163. doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2012.02.007
  • Allison, P. D. 2005. Fixed Effects Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Using SAS. Cary, NC: The SAS Institute.
  • Allison, P. D. 2009. Fixed Effects Regression Models. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Arias, E. and B. Tejada-Vera. 2008. “Quality of Race and Hispanic Origin Reporting on Death Certificates.” Paper presented at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, October, San Diego, CA.
  • Barranco, R. E. 2013. “Latino Immigration, Interaction, and Homicide Victimization.” Sociological Spectrum 33:534–553. doi:10.1080/02732173.2013.836145
  • Barranco, R. E. 2014. “Latinos, Blacks, and the Competition for Low-skill Jobs: Examining Regional Variations in the Effect of Immigration on Low-skill Employment.” Sociological Spectrum 34:185–202.
  • Barranco, R. E. and Edward S. Shihadeh. 2015. “Walking ATMs and the Immigration Spillover Effect: The Link Between Latino Immigration and Robbery Victimization.” Social Science Research 52:440–450.
  • Bouffard, L. A. and L. R. Muftic. 2006. “The ‘Rural Mystique’: Social Disorganization and Violence beyond Urban Communities.” Western Criminology Review 7:56–66.
  • Bursick, R. J. and H. G. Grasmick. 1993. Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control. New York: Lexington Books.
  • Danzinger, S., K. Chavez, and E. Cumberworth. 2012. Poverty and the Great Recession. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
  • Durand, J. and D. S. Massey. 2006. Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Ellis, M., R. Wright, and M. Townley. 2014. “The Great Recession and the Allure of New Immigrant Destinations in the United States.” International Migration Review 48:3–33. doi:10.1111/imre.12058
  • Engstrom, J. D. 2001. “Industry and Immigration in Dalton, Georgia.” Pp. 44–56 in Latino Workers in the Contemporary South, edited by A. D. Murphy, C. Blanchard, and J. A. Hill. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Feldmeyer, B. 2009. “Immigration and Violence: The Offsetting Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Latino Violence.” Social Science Research 38:717–731. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.03.003
  • Feldmeyer, B., C. T. Harris, and D. Lai. 2016. “Language Use and Violence: Assessing the Relationship between Linguistic Context and Macrolevel Violence.” Sociological Forum 31:267–290. doi:10.1111/socf.12246
  • Feldmeyer, B., C. T. Harris, and J. Scroggins. 2015. “Enclaves of Opportunity or ‘Ghettos of Last Resort?.’ Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Spatial Concentration on Violent Crime Rates.” Social Science Research 52:1–17. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.01.003
  • Feldmeyer, B., Arelys, Madero-Hernandez, Carlos E. Rojas-Gaona and Lauren C. Sabon. 2017. “Immigration, Collective Efficacy, Social Ties, and Violence: Unpacking the Mediating Mechanisms in Immigration Effects on Neighborhood-Level Violence.” Race and Justice: 1–28.
  • Ferraro, V. 2016. “Immigration and Crime in the New Destinations, 2000–2007: A Test of the Disorganizing Effect of Migration.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 32(1):23–45. doi:10.1007/s10940-015-9252-y
  • Firebaugh, G., C. Warner, and M. Massoglia. 2013. “Fixed Effects, Random Effects, and Hybrid Models for Causal Analysis.” Pp. 113–132 in Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, edited by S. L. Morgan. New York: Springer.
  • Fox, J. A. 2005. Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplemental Homicide Reports, 1976–2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
  • Frey, W. H. 2006. Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations since 2000. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
  • Fussell, E. 2011. “The Deportation Threat Dynamic and Victimization of Latino Migrants: Wage Theft and Robbery.” The Sociological Quarterly 52:593–615. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2011.01221.x
  • Gallup. 2007. Immigration. Retrieved June 13, 2017 (http://www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx).
  • Gerstel, N. 2011. “Rethinking Families and Community: The Color, Class, and Centrality of Extended Kin Ties.” Sociological Forum 26:1–20. doi:10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01222.x
  • Harris, C. T. and B. Feldmeyer. 2013. “Latino Immigration and White, Black, and Latino Violent Crime: A Comparison of Traditional and Non-Traditional Immigrant Destinations.” Social Science Research 42:202–216. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.08.014
  • Kposowa, A. J., G. T. Tsunokai, and J. McElvain. 2006. “Race and Homicide in the U.S. National Longitudinal Mortality Study.” Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 4:1–27. doi:10.1300/j222v04n01_01
  • Landale, N. S. and R. S. Oropesa. 2007. “Hispanic Families: Stability and Change.” Annual Review of Sociology 33:381–405. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.33.040406.131655
  • Laub, J. H. and R. J. Sampson. 2003. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Leach, M. A. and F. D. Bean. 2008. “The Structure and Dynamics of Mexican Migration to New Destinations in the United States.” Pp. 51–74 in New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration, edited by D. S. Massey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Lee, M. T., R. Martinez, Jr., and R. Rosenfeld. 2001. “Does Immigration Increase Homicide?. Negative Evidence from Three Border Cities.” The Sociological Quarterly 42:559–580. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01780.x
  • Lichter, D. T. 2012. “Immigration and the New Racial Diversity in Rural America.” Rural Sociology 77:3–35. doi:10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00070.x
  • Lichter, D. T. and K. M. Johnson. 2009. “Immigrant Gateways and Hispanic Migration to New Destinations.” International Migration Review 43:496–518. doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00775.x
  • Light, I. and S. J. Gold. 2000. Ethnic Economics. New York: Academic Press.
  • Light, M. T. and C. T. Harris. 2012. “Race, Space, and Violence: Exploring Spatial Dependence in Structural Covariates of White and Black Violent Crime in US Counties.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 28:559–586. doi:10.1007/s10940-011-9162-6
  • Livingston, G. and K. Parker. 2010. “Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents.” In Pew Research Center Demographic & Social Trends Report. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
  • Loftin, C., D. McDowell, and M. D. Fetzer. 2008. “A Comparison of SHR and Vital Statistics Homicide Estimates for U.S. Cities.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24:4–17. doi:10.1177/1043986207312585
  • Lyons, C. J., M. B. Velez, and W. A. Santoro. 2013. “Neighborhood Immigration, Violence, and City-Level Immigrant Political Opportunities.” American Sociological Review 78:604–632. doi:10.1177/0003122413491964
  • Martinez, R., Jr. 1996. “Latinos and Lethal Violence: The Impact of Poverty and Inequality.” Social Problems:131–146.
  • Martinez, R., Jr. 2002. Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community. New York: Routledge Press.
  • Martinez, R., Jr. and M. T. Lee. 1998. “Immigration and the Ethnic Distribution of Homicides in Miami: 1985-1995.” Homicide Studies 2:291–304. doi:10.1177/1088767998002003009
  • Martinez, R., Jr. and M. T. Lee. 2000. “Comparing the Context of Afro-Caribbean Homicides in Miami: Haitians, Jamaicans and Mariels.” International Migration Review 34:793–811. doi:10.2307/2675945
  • Martinez, R., Jr., J. I. Stowell, and J. M. Cancino. 2008. “A Tale of Two Border Cities: Community Context, Ethnicity, and Homicide.” Social Science Quarterly 89:1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2008.00518.x
  • Martinez, R., Jr., J. I. Stowell, and M. T. Lee. 2010. “Immigration and Crime in an Era of Transformation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Homicides in San Diego Neighborhoods, 1980–2000.” Criminology 48:797–829. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00202.x
  • Massey, D. S. 1985. “Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Theoretical Synthesis and Empirical Review.” Sociology and Social Research 69:315–350.
  • Massey, D. S. and C. Capoferro. 2008. Pp. 25–50 in New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration, edited by D. S. Massey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • McConnell, E. D. 2008. “The U.S. Destinations of Contemporary Mexican Immigrants.” International Migration Review 42:767–802. doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.00147.x
  • Merton, R. K. 1964. “Anomie, Anomia, and Social Interaction.” Pp. 213–242 in Anomie and Deviant Behavior: A Discussion and Critique, edited by M. B. Clinard. New York: Free Press.
  • Messner, S. and R. Rosenfeld. 2001. “An Institutional Anomie Theory of Crime.” Pp. 151–160 in Explaining Crime and Criminals, edited by R. Paternoster and R. Bachman. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury.
  • Morenoff, J. D. and A. Astor. 2006. “Immigrant Assimilation and Crime.” Pp. 36–63 in Immigration and Crime, edited by R. Martinez, Jr. and A. Valenzuela, Jr. New York: NYU Press.
  • Negi, N. J., A. Cepada, and A. Valdez. 2013. “Crime Victimization Among Immigrant Latino Day Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 35:354–369. doi:10.1177/0739986313488089
  • Osgood, D. W. 2000. “Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16:21–43.
  • Ousey, G. C. and C. E. Kubrin. 2009. “Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980–2000.” Social Problems 56:447–473. doi:10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.447
  • Ousey, G. C. and C. E. Kubrin. 2014. Immigration and the Changing Nature of Homicide in U.S. Cities, 1980–2010.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 30:453–483. doi:10.1007/s10940-013-9210-5
  • Painter-Davis, N. 2016. “Immigration Effects on Violence Contextualized: The Role of Immigrant Destination Type and Race/Ethnicity.” Sociological Perspectives 59:130–152. doi:10.1177/0731121415588152
  • Papademetriou, D. G. and A. Terrazas. 2009. Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis: Research Evidence, Policy Changes, and Implications. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute.
  • Portes, A. and R. Rumbaut. 2006. Immigrant America: A Portrait, Third Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Ramey, D. M. 2013. “Immigrant Revitalization and Neighborhood Violent Crime in Established and New Destination Cities.” Social Forces 92:597–629. doi:10.1093/sf/sot085
  • Reardon, S. F. and Glenn Firebaugh. 2002. “Measures of Multigroup Segregation.” Sociological Methodology 32:33–67.
  • Sampson, R. J. and J. H. Laub. 1990. “Crime and Deviance over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds.” American Sociological Review 55:608–627. doi:10.2307/2095859
  • Sampson, R. J., J. H. Laub, and C. Wimer. 2006. “Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects.” Criminology 44:465–508. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2006.00055.x
  • Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277: 918–924.
  • Sarkisian, N., M. Gerena, and N. Gerstel. 2006. “Extended Family Ties Among Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Whites: Superintegration or Disintegration?” Family Relations 55:331–344. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00408.x
  • Schwartz, J. 2006. “Family Structure as a Source of Female and Male Homicide in the United States.” Homicide Studies 10:253–278. doi:10.1177/1088767906293468
  • Shihadeh, E. S. and R. E. Barranco. 2010a. “Latino Immigration, Economic Deprivation, and Violence: Regional Differences in the Effect of Linguistic Isolation.” Homicide Studies 14:336–355. doi:10.1177/1088767910371190
  • Shihadeh, E. S. and R. E. Barranco. 2010b. “Leveraging the Power of the Ethnic Enclave: Residential Instability and Violence in Latino Communities.” Sociological Spectrum 30:249–269. doi:10.1080/02732171003635422
  • Shihadeh, E. S. and R. E. Barranco. 2010c. “Low Skill Jobs and Rural Violence: The Link Between Hispanic Employment and Non-Hispanic Homicide.” Deviant Behavior 31:411–439. doi:10.1080/01639620903231274
  • Shihadeh, E. S. and R. E. Barranco. 2013. “The Imperative of Place: Homicide and the New Latino Migration.” The Sociological Quarterly 54:90–113. doi:10.1111/tsq.12009
  • Shihadeh, E. S. and L. Winters. 2010. “Church, Place, and Crime: Latinos and Homicide in New Destinations.” Sociological Inquiry 80:628–649. doi:10.1111/j.1475-682x.2010.00355.x
  • Singer, A. 2004. The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
  • Steffenesmeier, D. J. and D. Haynie. 2000. “Gender, Structural Disadvantage, and Urban Crime: Do Macrosocial Variables Also Explain Female Offending Rates?” Criminology 38:403–438. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb00895.x
  • Steffensmeier, D. J., J. T. Ulmer, B. Feldmeyer, and C. T. Harris. 2010. “Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic Comparisons.” Criminology 48:1133–1169. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00214.x
  • Stowell, J. I., S. F. Messner, K. F. McGeever, and L. E. Raffalovich. 2009. “Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the U.S.: A Pooled, Cross-Sectional Time-Series Analysis of Metropolitan Areas.” Criminology 47:929–970. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00162.x
  • U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. 2010 Census of Population and Housing Summary File 1.
  • Warr, M. 1998. “Life-course Transitions and Desistance from Crime.” Criminology 36:183–216. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01246.x
  • Wiersema, B., C. Loftin, and D. McDowall. 2000. “A Comparison of Supplementary Homicide Reports and National Vital Statistics Homicide Estimates for U.S. Counties.” Homicide Studies 4:76–91. doi:10.1177/1088767900004004002
  • Wu, B. 2009. “Intimate Homicide Between Asians and Non-Asians: The Impact of Community Context.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 24:1148–1164. doi:10.1177/0886260508322191
  • Xie, M. and M. Planty. 2014. Violent Victimization in New and Established Hispanic Areas, 2007–2010. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.