Deportation, crime, and victimization

Sandra Rozo, Therese Anders and Steven Raphael
Additional contact information
Therese Anders: Hertie School Data Science Lab & SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence
Steven Raphael: UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

Journal of Population Economics, 2021, vol. 34, issue 1, No 5, 166 pages

Abstract: Abstract We study whether the forced removal of undocumented immigrants from the USA increases violent crime in Mexican municipalities. Using municipal panel data on homicide rates matched with annual deportation flows from the USA to Mexico, we assess whether municipalities with repatriation points experience higher violent crime when deportation flows surge. We consistently find that municipalities with greater geographic exposure to deportation flows have higher violent crime. The effects are mostly driven by increases in homicide rates of young males and minors.

Keywords: Crime; Migration; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K37 O15 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00148-020-00785-3 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jopoec:v:34:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s00148-020-00785-3

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... tion/journal/148/PS2

DOI: 10.1007/s00148-020-00785-3

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Population Economics is currently edited by K.F. Zimmermann

More articles in Journal of Population Economics from Springer, European Society for Population Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().