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Immigration and crime : race, ethnicity, and violence / edited by Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.

Contributor(s): Series: New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law seriesPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2006.Description: x, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0814757049 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814757048 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814757057 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780814757055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.3086/9120973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6181 .I45 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Coming to America: the impact of the new immigration on crime / Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Rethinking the Chicago school of criminology: a new era of immigration / Robert J. Bersik, Jr. -- Immigrant assimilation and crime: generational differences in youth violence in Chicago / Jefferey D. Morenoff and Avraham Astor -- 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 -- Immigration and Asian homicide patterns in urban and suburban San Diego / Matthew T. Lee and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Delinquency and acculturation in the twenty-first century: a decade's change in a Vietnamese American community / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III -- Beyond conflict and controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in urban America / Jennifer Lee -- The "war on the border": criminalizing immigration and militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border / Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia MenjiÌvar -- New immigrants and day labor: the potential for violence / Abel Valenzuela, Jr. -- Multiple disadvantages and crime among Black immigrants: exploring Haitian violence in Miami's communities / Arnie L. Nielsen and Ramiro Martinez, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coming to America: the impact of the new immigration on crime / Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Rethinking the Chicago school of criminology: a new era of immigration / Robert J. Bersik, Jr. -- Immigrant assimilation and crime: generational differences in youth violence in Chicago / Jefferey D. Morenoff and Avraham Astor -- 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 -- Immigration and Asian homicide patterns in urban and suburban San Diego / Matthew T. Lee and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Delinquency and acculturation in the twenty-first century: a decade's change in a Vietnamese American community / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III -- Beyond conflict and controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in urban America / Jennifer Lee -- The "war on the border": criminalizing immigration and militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border / Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia MenjiÌvar -- New immigrants and day labor: the potential for violence / Abel Valenzuela, Jr. -- Multiple disadvantages and crime among Black immigrants: exploring Haitian violence in Miami's communities / Arnie L. Nielsen and Ramiro Martinez, Jr.

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