Immigration Affect on Crime in the United States

Introduction

In the past few centuries, many stereo-type descriptions have been created regarding the criminal immigrants. These images and depictions have been highlighted in press, political discussions, and opinions of the public. However, the occurrence of these depictions has altered from time to time. When there was heavy migration of the Eastern Europeans during the 19th and 20th century, many concerns rose regarding the effect of the immigrants on the social problems and criminal activities in the states of America. Due to these worries and fears, the restrictive legislation aimed to decrease and in some cases stop the immigrants from coming in the US. Yet, after the World War II, these concerns of the public decreased (Carpenter, 46).

However, during the past few years, the concerns have again risen. The immigrants have once again become the cause of suspicion and fear, especially after the 9/11 attacks. It is generally believed that immigrants are the main cause of the rise in crime in the United States of America. Similar to the concerns of the public in centuries before, worries and fears about the impact of these growing immigrants have again raised. Many people have argued that these immigrants are the cause of different types of crime, like youth criminal groups, white-collar crimes, theft, murder etc (Carpenter, 46).

We attempt to shed light on this flaw by analyzing how immigrants affect the rate of crime throughout different areas of metropolitan. Proceeding to the presentation of our analyses, we take into account the theoretic rationale under-girding the thoughts that (1) One of the important reasons of increased reason of crime rates is immigration (2) On the contrary; there is an alternative argument that implies that crime rates can be decreased with the aid of immigration. After that, we elaborate what the number of existing empirical research presents the notion of the relationship between crime and immigration. This relation is shown at both the aggregate and individual level. Last but not the least, after elaboration of the extensive context for this research, we attempt to determine our analyses of the relationship across a representative model of United States metropolitan regions between immigration and crime (Carpenter, 46).

Methods

The following data and variables have been used in the report to research about the connection of the crimes and immigrations in the United States.

Data

With the aid of stratified sampling, we chose random samples of 150 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) as well as Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs) as determined in the Census 2000 to determine the relation among crime and immigration. The samples are the portrayal of the territorial distributions of United States' Metropolitan Areas (MAs). The main reason behind this is that we stratified the sample in such a way that includes samples on the basis of population size and region. As the sample represents all areas of metropolitan comprises of population of around more than a million, so, this research prefers to choose smaller ones with a population of 75,000 to ...