HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Submit a response Purchase Article View Shopping Cart Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Sorenson, S B Articles by Shen, H Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Sorenson, S B Articles by Shen, H

Homicide risk among immigrants in California, 1970 through 1992.

S B Sorenson and H Shen

School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles 90095-1772, USA.

According to the death certificates of the 65,510. California residents who died of homicide from 1970 through 1992, foreign-born persons are overrepresented in the homicides of California residents. Analysis of homicide data for 15- to 34-year-olds (n = 38,774), who account for a majority of all homicide victims indicated that immigrant-to-nonimmigrant risk patterns differed by ethnicity and across time. During the 23-year study period, foreign-born Whites, Hispanics, and Asians and others were at significantly higher risk and foreign-born Blacks were at a statistically similar risk of homicide compared with their US-born counterparts (risk ratio = 2.12, 1.24, 1.72, and 0.60, respectively).

This article has been cited by other articles:

				P M Krueger, S A Bond Huie, R G Rogers, and R A Hummer Neighbourhoods and homicide mortality: an analysis of race/ethnic differences J Epidemiol Community Health, March 1, 2004; 58(3): 223 - 230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				S. B. SORENSON and V. LEW Homicide and Nativity: A Look at Victimization and Offending in Los Angeles County Homicide Studies, May 1, 2000; 4(2): 162 - 184. [Abstract] [PDF]

				M. L. Alaniz, R. S. Cartmill, and R. N. Parker Immigrants and Violence: The Importance of Neighborhood Context Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, May 1, 1998; 20(2): 155 - 174. [Abstract]

				S. B. Sorenson Identifying Hispanics in Existing Databases: Effect of Three Methods on Mortality Patterns of Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites Eval Rev, January 1, 1998; 22(4): 520 - 534. [Abstract] [PDF]