"When large numbers of Latinos move into an area, some longtime residents worry that there will be a huge influx of needy people who will burden local communities by increasing crime rates and costs for local government," says Dr. Martha Crowley, assistant professor of sociology at NC State and co-author of the study, Social Disorganization in New Latino Destinations? "We've found that these concerns are unfounded."New studies from North Carolina State University, debunks the association between Latinos and crime. Studies are actually proving a positive change for communities with a large introduction of Latino immigrants. The studies indentified that new locations for Latino diffusion saw larger declines in crime rates than other comparable areas during the 1990s. They have also found that poverty and unemployment rates declined in those same areas of new Latino population.
*The study examined the effects of significant Latino population growth between 1990 and 2000 in nonmetropolitan “boomtowns.”
Boomtowns: a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boomtowns)
For more info please visit: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wmscrowleydestinations/
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