Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States

Limited research attention has focused on homicides involving foreign-born victims. Using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, we examined 9428 homicides that occurred in 2017 in the United States across 32 states and D.C. Approximately 8% of homicide victims were foreign-born. Hom...

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Autores principales: Freemon, Kayla R., Gutierrez, Melissa A., Huff, Jessica, Cheon, Hyunjung, Choate, David, Cox, Taylor, Katz, Charles M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Regular Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101714
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Sumario:Limited research attention has focused on homicides involving foreign-born victims. Using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, we examined 9428 homicides that occurred in 2017 in the United States across 32 states and D.C. Approximately 8% of homicide victims were foreign-born. Homicide victimization rates were substantially lower for foreign-born persons, compared to U.S.-born persons. However, foreign-born persons from Honduras, El Salvador, and Jamaica had a substantially higher risk of homicide victimization. Notably, few homicides involving foreign-born victims were gang- or drug-trade-related. With the growing number of immigrants in the United States, policy and prevention efforts should be guided by research.

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