Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent generation (1994 to 2014) of immigration-crime research focused on macrosocial (i.e., geospatial) units using a two-pronged approach that combines the qualitative method of narrative review with the quantitative strategy of systematic meta-analysis. After briefly reviewing contradictory theoretical arguments that scholars have invoked in efforts to explain the immigration-crime relationship, we present findings from our analysis, which (a) determined the average effect of immigration on crime rates across the body of literature and (b) assessed how variations in key aspects of research design have impacted results obtained in prior studies. Findings indicate that, overall, the immigration-crime association is negative—but very weak. At the same time, there is significant variation in findings across studies. Study design features, i...

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移民与犯罪：评估有争议的问题

移民和犯罪有关系吗？这篇评论解决了这个问题，以便对移民与犯罪的关系有更深入的了解。我们采用两管齐下的方法，将叙述性评论的定性方法与系统性荟萃分析的定量策略相结合，综合了近代（1994年至2014年）针对宏观社会（即地理空间）单位的移民犯罪研究。在简要回顾了学者在解释移民与犯罪关系的努力中所使用的相互矛盾的理论论据之后，我们提出了我们分析中的发现，这些发现（a）确定了移民对整个文学体犯罪率的平均影响，（b）进行了评估。研究设计关键方面的变化如何影响先前研究的结果。结果表明，总体而言，移民与犯罪协会是负面的，但非常薄弱。同时，各个研究的发现有很大差异。研究设计特征，...