Immigration and Crime : : Ethnicity, Race, and Violence /

Immigration and Crime : : Ethnicity, Race, and Violence / / ed. by Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Abel Valenzuela, Jr.

The original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime covers both a variety of immigrant groups--mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America--and a variety of topics including:...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Astor, Avraham,
Bankston Iii, Carl L.,
Bursik Jr., Robert J.,
Gonzales, Roberto G.,
Kil, Sang Hea,
Komaie, Golnaz,
Lee, Jennifer,
Lee, Matthew T.,
Martinez Jr., Ramiro,
Menjívar, Cecilia,
Morenoff, Jeffrey D.,
Morgan, Charlie V.,
Nielsen, Amie L.,
Rumbaut, Rubén G.,
Tafoya-Estrada, Rosaura,
Valenzuela Jr., Abel,
Zhou, Min,
HerausgeberIn:
Jr., Abel Valenzuela,,
Jr., Ramiro Martinez,,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Coming to America: The Impact of the New Immigration on Crime
  • Chapter 2 Rethinking the Chicago School of Criminology: A New Era of Immigration
  • Chapter 3 Immigrant Assimilation and Crime: Generational Differences in Youth Violence in Chicago
  • Chapter 4 Immigration and Incarceration: Patterns and Predictors of Imprisonment among First- and Second-Generation Young Adults
  • Chapter 5 Immigration and Asian Homicide Patterns in Urban and Suburban San Diego
  • Chapter 6 Delinquency and Acculturation in the Twenty-first Century: A Decade’s Change in a Vietnamese American Community
  • Chapter 7 Beyond Conflict and Controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in Urban America
  • Chapter 8 The “War on the Border” Criminalizing Immigrants and Militarizing the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Chapter 9 New Immigrants and Day Labor: The Potential for Violence
  • Chapter 10 Multiple Disadvantages and Crime among Black Immigrants: Exploring Haitian Violence in Miami’s Communities
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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