The criminal victimization of immigrants / William F. McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, William F. (William Frank), 1943- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in victims and victimology

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizen criminals.

Immigrants--Crimes against.

Immigrants.

Criminology.

Emigration and immigration.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

xi, 135 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides. McDonald examines a broad range of quantitative and qualitative data from historical and international sources including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and Spain. He writes with a view to correcting myths about the relationship between immigrants and crime, noting that immigrants are more likely to become victims than offenders. The book outlines the multiple forms and contexts in which immigrants are victimized, exploited, and harmed. Reviewing micro- and macro-level victimological and sociological theories as they apply to patterns and forms of immigrants' victimization, this study ultimately seeks to understand reasons for which immigrants are victimized by their own kind, and by persons outside their community.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The immigrant as victim: the minimal research

Theories of criminal victimization

The criminal victimization of immigrants: a meta survey

Exploiting immigrant vulnerability

Anti-immigrant hate crime

Domestic violence/intimate partner violence/wife battering

The global prohibition regime against trafficking in persons: understanding the limited results

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-126) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: McDonald, William F. (William Frank), 1943- Criminal victimization of immigrants.

ISBN:

3319690612

9783319690612

OCLC:

1029612894