Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D.

Publications

The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States

  • July 13, 2016

For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime.

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The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation

  • February 21, 2007

Because many immigrants to the United States, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, are young men…

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