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Immigrants and crime in the new destinations / Vincent A. Ferraro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferraro, Vincent A., 1981-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizen criminals--United States.
- Noncitizen criminals.
- Immigrants--Crimes against--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Crime--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ferraro expands the current focus of the immigration-crime link to incorporate both the effect of immigration on anti-immigrant violence and the differential processes at work in new immigrant destinations. The findings on traditional crime are consistent with recent research and the community resource perspective, in that there is no observed effect of immigration on overall rates of crime, whether in traditional receiving areas or in new destinations. Analysis of anti-immigrant hate crimes suggests that while traditional receiving areas, especially those made up of older arrivals, may buffer residents from anti-immigrant attacks, immigrants in new destinations experience no such protections. Moreover, especially where the population is largely recently arrived, results suggest that immigrants in new destinations may be at heightened risk of victimization.
- Contents:
- Making sense of immigration
- Divergent perspectives: social disorganization and segmented assimilation
- Framing the immigration-crime question
- Are new Americans really new criminals? the relationship between crime and immigration
- New neighbors or new targets? Anti-immigrant hate crime
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-738-2
- OCLC:
- 861529541
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