Immigration and Crime : Race, Ethnicity, and Violence.

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martinez, Jr., Ramiro
Otros Autores: Valenzuela, Jr., Abel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Colección:New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law.
Temas:
Crime > United States > Sociological aspects.
Noncitizen criminals > United States.
Immigrants > Crimes against > United States.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Criminels étrangers > États-Unis.
Noncitizen criminals
Crime > Sociological aspects
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants > Crimes against
Immigrants > Social conditions
Race relations
United States > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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: victimization, racial conflict, juvenile delinquency, exposure to violence, homicide, drugs, gangs, and border violence. The volume provides important insights about past understandings of immigration and crime, many based on theories that have proven to be untrue or racially biased, as well as o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (406 pages)
ISBN:9780814759530
081475953X

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