Ramiro
Martinez, Jr.
Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice and in Sociology and Anthropology
Ramiro Martinez, Jr. in the Press
Scientific American
Undocumented Immigrants Are Half as Likely to Be Arrested for Violent Crimes as U.S.-Born Citizens
“The longer [immigrants] reside in the United States, the more they adapt to American society, and the more likely their arrest rates resemble those of the native-born,” says Ramiro Martinez, Jr., a quantitative criminologist at Northeastern University.
Immigrants and crime: Crunching the numbers
“The basic claim is at best unsustainable or more likely pure fiction. A fact created out of thin air,” Ramiro Martinez, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, told PolitiFact. The bottom line, PolitiFact says, is that it’s unclear just how many undocumented immigrants are currently in prison, because the available statistics don’t provide details […]
PolitiFact
Unsubstantiated: Greg Abbott attributes 3,000 murders to immigrants here illegally
In checking Perry’s claim, we’d asked criminologists recommended to us by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York how to interpret the DPS-presented information. Notably, the DPS web page doesn’t specify when the 3,070 homicide charges in the criminal histories of all the “alien” individuals arrested in Texas since October 2008 accumulated. […]
PolitiFact
Rick Perry claim about 3,000 homicides by illegal immigrants not supported by state figures
Walker and Ramiro Martinez, Jr., a Northeastern University professor, each suggested it’s highly unlikely unauthorized residents committed that many homicides in the years mentioned by Perry. Drawing on FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for Texas posted online by the DPS, Walker calculated that from 2008 through 2012, there were 3,903 persons arrested on homicide charges in […]
