Details

Editor

• Curry, Theodore R. [Browse]
• Eno Louden, Jennifer [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 39110. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 39110

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

• The project was divided into two studies that together sought to compare criminal histories and victimization experiences for immigrants compared to U.S.-born citizens in the U.S.-México border region. Study one (datasets 1 and 2) of the project consists of secondary data from the El Paso County Sheriff's office, the US Census, and the El Paso Neighborhood Survey. Study two (dataset 3) of the project consists of interviews with inmates from El Paso county jails.
• The purpose of this study was to understand the link between immigration, crime, and victimization in the US-Mexico border region. In comparing experiences of participants, the project team asked 4 research questions: (1) How do the criminal histories of legal residents and illegal residents compare to U.S. born citizens?, (2) What are the individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics that contribute to criminal behavior for legal residents, illegal residents, and U.S.-born citizens in the U.S.-México border region?, (3) How do the victimization histories of legal residents and illegal residents compare to U.S. born citizens?, and (4) What are the characteristics that are associated with victimization for legal residents, illegal residents, and U.S.-born citizens in the U.S.-México border region?

Type of data

• administrative records data
• census/enumeration data
• survey data

Time and place of event

Data collected 2019-04-01 through 2023-05-03

Funding information

Sponsored by United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 2019-R2-CX-0054

Methodology note

Persons booked into El Paso County, Texas jails

Contents

• Study-Level Files
• Study 1 - Secondary Data
• Study 1 - Variables for Multilevel Analysis
• Study 2 - Inmate Interviews

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Provenance

2025-06-26 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks. Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Cite as

Eno Louden, Jennifer, and Curry, Theodore R. Crime and Victimization on the United States-Mexico Border: A Comparison of Legal Residents, Illegal Residents and Native-Born Citizens, Texas, 2019-2023. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39110.v1

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