Consequences Of Immigrant's Criminal Behavior

The author focuses on Hispanic/Latino immigrants and the views on immigrants who commit crime. In this study, the author’s findings come from the public perceptions. The perceptions of the public in local communities, towns, and cities, discriminate due to the increase in Hispanic/Latino immigration. The public’s view in the study were discriminative against Hispanics/Latinos who migrated to the United States. Sohoni found that societies perceptions in surveys propose a great quantity of Americans that consider immigration will indicate abnormal criminality. On the contrary, the author found that immigrant Hispanic/Latino youths were less likely than Hispanic U.S. Americans to participate in crime.

What role will immigrants have in the future of American crime? Unlike the past and the present, it is difficult to determine exactly what sort of role immigrants will play in the future. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2010) “The next half century marks key points in continuing trends — the U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white population remains the largest single group, but no group is in the majority” (p. 11). Estolano LeSar Perez, a researcher with Los Angeles 2050, says this could have a real impact on something that preoccupies many Americans: crime.

Illegal immigrants have often been scorned due to the misconception that they engage in more crimes than U.S. citizens. However, studies show that there is a negative correlation between first generation immigration and crime. Essentially, first generation immigrants have little impact on the U.S. crime rates. Nevertheless, studies show that second generation immigrants are engaging in crime at a significantly higher rate than native born citizens. However, research shows that first generations immigrants who migrate at an earlier age tend to have higher rates of offending than older first-generation immigrants. Essentially, the younger first-generation immigrants rapidly assimilate to mainstream American culture. While some immigrants follow

Although events such as San Bernardino in 2015 provide anecdotal evidence of immigrants committing acts of extreme violence, these events are extremely rare. Nonetheless, tragedies such as these inevitably grab headlines and capture the attention of millions of Americans across the country. Tragedies such as the attack in San Bernardino hold strong emotional appeal to proponents for restrictive immigration policy. However, these rare and uncontrollable events should not provide the base of logic for America’s national immigration policy as they are not a proxy for immigrant behavior as a whole. Various statistics regarding crime among immigrants may reveal an underlying reason for lower crime rates, which is that the majority of immigrants understand the implications of committing a crime and know that it would not be in their best interest as a new member of the country they wish to call home. Natives, moreover, have crime rates five times that of immigrants. This demonstrates the potential positive externalities that immigrants contribute to the social sphere by lowering the crime rate and acting as models within urban America.

It seems unusual for people to consider immigrants criminals to this day. Although we are in the 21st century, most immigrants are frowned upon and known to bring their cultural tendencies to the United States and cause harm. In Bianca E Bersani and Alex R. Piquero’s essay “Immigrants don’t commit more crimes. Why does the myth persist?” it is shown through various ways that immigrants commit less crime than native-born peers. Bersani and Piquero’s intention when writing this article was to prove to the nation that people are committing the same mistake as they did when large numbers of Polish, Italians, and Irish migrated to the United States and were blamed for crime without probable crime. Bersani and Piquero show the respect and commitment that immigrants have towards the authorities, providing another example that would diminish the fact of them committing crime.

The relationship between illegal immigration and crime is an extremely controversial and politically fueled issue. Both immigrations and crime are perceived as threats to public safety and illegal immigrants are easy targets for blame by society. This holds true in he City of Costa Mesa and in Orange County as a whole. Specifically, the Costa Mesa Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff Office has implemented policy to check the immigration status of individuals arrested for serious crimes.

It is proven that immigrants are far more afraid and less likely to as well participate in any crime involved activities, quit their jobs, shoplift, hurt others in any way, shape or form, or do something that could get them arrested. It’s the sense of fear they have for getting deported, but it may also be that good spirit in which they truly came here to start a better life with no problems. Many comparisons between cities, communities and counties are done by economists to differentiate the links of local concentration of immigrants and the rates of crime and violence in that specified area. Results showed that the higher number concentration of immigrants, the lower crime rate. There is no proven connection found between immigrants and higher crime

For criminals, participating in crime is often caused by the absence of legal means to provide and support for themself and his or her family. For sociologists, one yearns to know what is the final reason, the final straw, to the criminal’s decision to participate in said crime? If this answer is possible to determined, sociologists can work to prevent this occurrence from happen in the first place. However, I believe, for individuals to turn to illegal means, it is not one, single event but instead it is the idea that one’s history, surroundings, and personality must all align together. More specifically, it is one’s background factors, situational dynamics, and foreground factors that causes an individual to succumb or to not succumb to

When crimes happen in immigrant neighborhoods they often go unreported. The people refuse to call authorities for aid and or assistance because they fear their illegal status will put them at risk once the police do arrive. Therefore you have a vicious cycle, a crime happens, it goes unreported and the victims are virtually powerless and they have no place to turn for help. The criminals who prey upon these people know their crimes will go unanswered because they are certain no will report them because of their status. This is just one of the many challenges immigrant communities grapple with daily.

As shown above, the debate between for and against immigrants, like the immigration will not stop. In fact, the united states were built on the pioneer immigrants. Millions of illegal immigrants and their families have settled in the united states since years, anyway, it is not easy now to discuss dealing with them without a humane look or security situation. Many of them with high education, talents, and highly experience. Not fair to find a connection between the immigrants and crimes, and the immigrants should not be treated the same. Crimes exist in any society the criminal could be citizen or immigrants that is not meant that the immigrants responsible for all crimes. It is wrong to consider a religious or national group responsible for

The debate over the years, however, has been whether liberal democratic nations should tolerate the entry of irregular migrants into their countries. Questions have also been asked as to what legal and moral obligation these nations have over the vulnerability of illegal migrants into

In order to apply this theory to immigration and crime it is essential to recognize that different migrant groups are likely to have differences in all of the components of the cost benefit analysis that they undertake. There possible problem in exploring the link between immigration and crime was that, the data do not capture all crimes. Data is collected on individuals who are arrested and/or convicted, but will not include all crimes committed. Thus, comparing foreign born and US born populations can be misleading. A chain of factors might lead to foreign born individuals having higher or lower arrest or conviction rates than those born in the US born even if they commit crimes at the same rates.

The subject which has been chosen for the upcoming paper will be on illegal immigration and the effects that those individuals that are classified as illegal immigrants on crime rates within the territories of the United States in comparison to that of legal citizens crime rates in the United States. The first order of business will be the determination of how many samples will be taken and used in the hopes of getting an accurate cross section of a target populace (Sandelowski, 2000). It is the best estimation that since the nature of the up coming paper will primarily deal with the collection of data that already in exists particularly from state and federal organizations such as the FBI's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the like then

Tuba Bircan and Marc Hooghe stated in their article “Immigration, diversity and crime: an analysis of Belgian national crime statistics, 2001-6”, that the idea that crime and immigration is linked is not new. It was being studied in the 18th and 19th century through the Chicago School of social ecology being its main influence. Social Disorganization Theory helps explain the link between crime and the structure of the community. But Bircan and Hooghe state in their article that once you start adding other factors in, like deprivation, unemployment, that there really is not a link between immigrants and crime. Bircan and Hooghe found new evidence from Belgian, and investigated whether immigrants that are in concentrated zones have a high impact

The thought of arriving immigrants in any host country has been accompanied by reactions of exclusion, and continues to expand throughout the years. During any social illness, immigrants tend to be the first to be held responsible by their recipient societies. Most crimes are associated with immigrants due to the fact that they may not posses the same socio-economics status as natives. Another contributing factor is the media that conducts numerous stories that highlight the image of immigrant crimes to recall the alleged difference between native and foreign born. Undoubtedly, the correlation between immigration and crime has become one of the most controversial discussions in current society. As we enter a new era, immigrants will have