Trump speaks on ‘migrant crime.’ The reality: It’s not rampant, but a real concern.
Trump speaks on ‘migrant crime.’ The reality: It’s not rampant, but a real concern.
- October 11, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law and society, Oct. 11, 2024, The Christian Science Monitor
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Charis Kubrin co-wrote “Immigration and Crime: Taking Stock,” a review of dozens of studies dating back to the early 1900s. “If we take a very global look at what the studies say, what we know is that immigrants themselves offend at a lower rate than their native-born peers,” says Professor Kubrin, professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine. The studies found that crime rates in cities generally aren’t impacted by immigration. Among the studies she reviewed, the majority focused on immigrants overall. A smaller number looked at unauthorized immigrants and relied on population estimates from the government and research groups.
For the full story, please visit https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/1011/immigrant-migrant-crime-trump-harris.
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