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Book SynopsisArgues that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime. This book covers a variety of immigrant groups - mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America - and topics, such as: victimization, racial conflict, drugs, gangs, and more.
Trade ReviewImmigration and Crime is a terrific collection that debunks the stereotype of the Latino & criminal immigrant. The systematic and thorough quantitative and qualitative data in the book should provide pause and help shape a new policy agenda on immigration and crime. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Serves as a much needed wake up call to scholars, policy makers, and the general public. -- Tim Wadsworth,University of Colorado, Boulder
This volume shines a much needed light on the complexity of connections between crime, race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. Drawing on a distinguished group of experts on crime and immigration, Martinez and Valenzuela pull together a stimulating blend of perspectives and methods to address a topic that has been sadly neglected by researchers. -- Gary LaFree,author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Coming to America: The Impact of the New Immigration on Crime Ramiro Martinez Jr.2 Rethinking the Chicago School of Criminology: A New Era of Immigration Robert J. Bursik Jr.3 Immigrant Assimilation and Crime: Generational Differences in Youth Violence in Chicago Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Avraham Astor4 Immigration and Incarceration: Patterns and Predictors of Imprisonment among First- and Second-Generation Young Adults Ruben G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie V. Morgan, and Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada5 Immigration and Asian Homicide Patterns in Urban and Suburban San DiegoMatthew T. Lee and Ramiro Martinez Jr.6 Delinquency and Acculturation in the Twenty-?rst Century: A Decade's Change in a Vietnamese American Community Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III7 Beyond Con?ict and Controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in Urban America Jennifer Lee8 The "War on the Border": Criminalizing Immigrants and Militarizing the U.S.-Mexico Border Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia Menjivar9 New Immigrants and Day Labor Abel Valenzuela Jr.10 Multiple Disadvantages and Crime among Black ImmigrantsAmie L. Nielsen and Ramiro Martinez Jr.About the Contributors Index
