How Immigration Affects Crime in Latin America
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2023-04
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Keyhole Press, The University of Tampa
Abstract
This paper looks at three different cases within Latin
America to determine if there is a relationship between
immigration and crime. This paper investigates Panama,
Costa Rica, and Paraguay while controlling for
many variables including total populations, gender demographics
of the total population, urbanization rates,
GDPs, happiness levels, poverty rates, and literacy rates
within the three cases. The relationship between immigration
and crime is complicated to prove because there
are many factors that could interfere with the association,
so there are many control variables. The three cases
have variations in the independent variables, immigration
rates and unemployment rates, in order to see the
potential effects of these variables on crime. This study
concludes that the data available on this topic is insufficient
and more fieldwork needs to be conducted. This
paper was produced in Dr. Rey’s PSC 450 course.
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Recommended citation: Gervais, E. (2023). How immigration affects crime in Latin America.
Q: Journal of Undergraduate Research & Inquiry, 4, 37-64. https://doi.org/10.48497/JARB-QT67
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Crime, Immigration, Panama, Costa Rica, Paraguay
Citation
Gervais, E. (2023). How immigration affects crime in Latin America. Q: Journal of Undergraduate Research & Inquiry, 4, 37-64. https://doi.org/10.48497/JARB-QT67