Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
“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 ofLosing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America“Immigration and Crimeis 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 ofRacism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States“Essential.”-Choice,“Serves as a much needed wake up call to scholars, policy makers, and the general public.”-Tim Wadsworth,University of Colorado, Boulder