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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author Freemon, Kayla R.
Gutierrez, Melissa A.
Huff, Jessica
Cheon, Hyunjung
Choate, David
Cox, Taylor
Katz, Charles M.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-88146382022-02-08 Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States Freemon, Kayla R. Gutierrez, Melissa A. Huff, Jessica Cheon, Hyunjung Choate, David Cox, Taylor Katz, Charles M. Prev Med Rep Regular Article 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. 2022-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8814638/ /pubmed/35141120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101714 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States
title_full Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States
title_fullStr Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States
title_short Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States
title_sort violent victimization among immigrants: using the national violent death reporting system to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the united states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814638/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101714
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