Immigration and crime
Subtitle: race, ethnicity, and violence
By: edited by Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
Contributors: Martinez, Ramiro.; Valenzuela, Abel.
Series: New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780814757048; 9780814757055
Subjects: Crime -- Sociological aspects -- United States; Alien criminals -- United States; Immigrants -- Crimes against -- United States; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Emigration and immigration; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to America: the impact of the new immigration on crime / Ramiro Martinez, Jr.; title: Rethinking the Chicago school of criminology: a new era of immigration / Robert J. Bersik, Jr.; title: Immigrant assimilation and crime: generational differences in youth violence in Chicago / Jefferey D. Morenoff and Avraham Astor; title: Immigration and incarceration: patterns and predictors of imprisonment among first- and second-generation young adults / Rubin G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie V. Morgan, and Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada; title: Immigration and Asian homicide patterns in urban and suburban San Diego / Matthew T. Lee and Ramiro Martinez, Jr.; title: Delinquency and acculturation in the twenty-first century: a decade's change in a Vietnamese American community / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III; title: Beyond conflict and controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in urban America / Jennifer Lee; title: The "war on the border": criminalizing immigration and militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border / Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia Menjívar; title: New immigrants and day labor: the potential for violence / Abel Valenzuela, Jr.; title: Multiple disadvantages and crime among Black immigrants: exploring Haitian violence in Miami's communities / Arnie L. Nielsen and Ramiro Martinez, Jr.