The Myth of Immigrants and Crime

Steve Chapman writes in the Chicago Tribune:

Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson, who has focused his research on Chicago neighborhoods, documents that felonious behavior is less common among Mexican-Americans, who constitute the biggest share of Latinos, than among whites. Second- and third-generation Latinos, contrary to what you might expect, fall into more crime than immigrants. But Sampson says that overall, “Mexican-American rates of violence are very similar to whites. Click here for the rest of the piece.

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