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Research on the relationship between crime rates and immigration in the United States
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-supported analyses find that —whether documented or undocumented—tend to have lower crime and incarceration rates than ; the largest, most detailed state-level st...
There is no reliable, nationwide count of how many women and children are violently murdered each year specifically by people without legal status; multiple fact‑checks and research reviews state that...
State-level research beyond generally aligns with national studies: are not associated with higher overall crime, and in many analyses immigrants—documented and undocumented—have lower arrest and conv...
A consistent body of empirical research finds that — including undocumented/illegal immigrants where data permit — are not more likely to commit violent crimes than and in many studies are substantial...
The 150‑year, multi‑institution analysis of incarceration rates finds that immigrants have never had higher incarceration rates than the and that, since about 1960, immigrants are substantially less l...
Over the past two decades a growing and increasingly rigorous body of research finds that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans, with...
Multiple major research syntheses and policy centers find that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — commit crimes at equal or lower rates than -born residents, but there is no authoritativ...
The balance of peer-reviewed and government-funded research shows that -born citizens commit crimes at higher rates per capita than undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants: multiple studies using arres...
A clear majority of recent, peer‑reviewed and government‑funded studies find that undocumented (commonly termed “illegal”) immigrants are less likely to be arrested for violent crimes than ‑born citiz...
Available, high-quality research and federal reporting do not provide a single, reliable national tally of how many people have been killed or raped by people who are undocumented; multiple scholarly ...
Accurately measuring in the U.S. requires combining centralized homicide databases with immigration-control records, careful case-by-case linkage, and transparent handling of missing data and biases; ...
National victimization surveys and peer‑reviewed analyses generally find that than the and that neighborhoods with higher immigrant concentrations often show equal or lower levels of violent and prope...
A substantial and growing body of empirical research finds that are not a disproportionate source of violent crime and in many studies have lower violent-offending and arrest rates than ; nevertheless...
Methodological choices — especially which data sources researchers use, how they define and estimate "undocumented" populations, the geographic scale of analysis, and the crime categories modeled — sy...
Large-scale, multi-country and -focused research finds no evidence that and in many analyses immigrants—documented and undocumented—commit crime at equal or lower rates than the native-born population...
Researchers combine imperfect arrest or conviction records with independent population estimates and statistical adjustments to estimate ; where is missing from standard crime datasets they rely on sp...
The best available research shows widespread crime and in many measures commit fewer crimes than the U.S.-born population . Official enforcement tallies and rhetorical claims about a exist, but they d...