Immigration Internal Migration and Crime in South Africa A multilevel model analysis

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dc.citation.doi10.1111/DPR.12382en_ZA
dc.citation.epage691en_ZA
dc.citation.issue5en_ZA
dc.citation.spage672en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKollamparambil, U
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-15T12:17:00Z
dc.date.available2019-11-15T12:17:00Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.description.abstractA review of South African literature on crime confirms the lack of a study that considers the impact of migration on the crime rate in the country. The high levels of crime in South Africa aside, additional motivation behind the study has been the increasing rhetoric in media and by politicians insinuating the prominent role of foreign immigrants in the high crime levels of the country. While this is the first attempt to study this relationship in the South African context, it also stands apart from existing studies undertaken in the developed countries by accounting for both internal migrants as well as foreign immigrants. Further, the study claims the use of multi-level regression estimations as an improvement from the existing studies on the issue by accounting for variance clustering across different spatial levels. In all the estimated models, internal migrant ratio came out as being positively and significantly related to crime rates across five different crime categories, with the sole exception of sexual crime rate. There was no evidence of foreign immigrant ratio impacting on crime rate in any of the crimes analysed except crime relating to property. Further, income inequality and sex ratio figure as determining factors across most types of crime in South Africa. © The Authors 2018. Development Policy Review © 2018 Overseas Development Instituteen_ZA
dc.description.librarianTT2019en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSteven Gordon, et al .2019 The Popularity of State Discourses on Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa, The Round Table, 10.1080/00358533.2019.1658345, (1-12), (2019). Crossrefen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0950-6764
dc.identifier.issn09506764
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/28454
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12382en_ZA
dc.journal.titleDevelopment Policy Reviewen_ZA
dc.journal.volume37en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWiley Online Libraryen_ZA
dc.rights© The Authors 2018. Development Policy Reviewen_ZA
dc.subjectCrimeen_ZA
dc.subjectForeign immigrationen_ZA
dc.subjectIncome inequalityen_ZA
dc.subjectInternal migrationen_ZA
dc.subjectMulti‐ level modelen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.titleImmigration Internal Migration and Crime in South Africa A multilevel model analysisen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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