Abstract A wide-ranging body of research on the immigration-crime relationship has shown that immigration does not increase community crime levels. However, most prior studies have focused on traditional immigrant destinations or border cities. This study addresses several gaps in this line of research by exploring immigration effects on neighborhood levels of Violent and Property Index crimes for the 2008 to 2014 period in Cincinnati, Ohio – a Midwestern, mid-sized, nontraditional immigrant destination. Overall, our findings are consistent with previous research and indicate that controlling for other factors, the percent foreign-born has largely neutral effects on census tract-level crime rates in Cincinnati. Moreover, our findings show no signs of indirect effects of immigration on crime through neighborhood disadvantage.

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中西部非传统目的地的移民对犯罪的影响：俄亥俄州辛辛那提市的社区分析

摘要关于移民与犯罪关系的广泛研究表明，移民不会增加社区犯罪水平。但是，大多数先前的研究都集中在传统的移民目的地或边境城市。这项研究通过探索2008年至2014年期间在俄亥俄州辛辛那提市（中西部，中型，非传统移民目的地）的暴力行为和财产指数犯罪的邻里水平对移民影响的影响，解决了该研究领域中的一些空白。总体而言，我们的发现与以前的研究一致，表明控制其他因素，外国出生百分比对辛辛那提的人口普查地区犯罪率具有中性影响。而且，我们的研究结果表明，没有迹象表明移民会通过邻里不利对犯罪产生间接影响。