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Originally Posted by Scucca  Could California be an outlier or is there national evidence too? |
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n fact, immigrants have the lowest rates of imprisonment for criminal convictions in American society. Both the national and local-level findings presented here turn conventional wisdom on its head and present a challenge to criminological theory as well as to sociological perspectives on "straight-line assimilation."
For every ethnic group without exception, the census data show an increase in rates of criminal incarceration among young men from the foreign-born to the US-born generations, and over time in the United States among the foreign born — exactly the opposite of what is typically assumed both by standard theories and by public opinion on immigration and crime.
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Migration Information Source - Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men
Seems like national data follows the same pattern.