For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immigration drive crime?
  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Makes sense. If you’re driving a car with expired registration the last thing you want is to get pulled over.

    Same goes if you’re in the country illegally: You avoid committing crimes so you don’t get caught and potentially deported.

    • ZeroCool@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yep, the fact that immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens has been known since Herbert Hoover established the Wickersham Commission in 1929. What makes this study uniquely important is its methodology.

      To estimate the undocumented population at the neighborhood level, the research team accessed restricted individual-level Census data through a federal Research Data Center (RDC) and then applied an imputation method similar to those used by the Department of Homeland Security.

      This is where they relied on the expertise of Christopher, who received his training at UC Irvine, earning an economics Ph.D. in 2022 before joining Stanford.

      Christopher is one of the few academic researchers to have published work leveraging such a method.