The Oxford handbook of ethnicity, crime, and immigration / edited by Sandra M. Bucerius and Michael Tonry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bucerius, Sandra M., editor.

Tonry, Michael H., editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice.

The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Crime and race.

Noncitizens.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (961 pages)

Other Title:

Handbook of ethnicity, crime, and immigration

Ethnicity, crime, and immigration

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title provides comprehensive analyses of current knowledge about the unwarranted disparities in dealings with the criminal justice system faced by some disadvantaged minority groups in all developed countries.

Contents:

PART I RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES

1. The Racialization of Latinos in the United States

2. Race and Crime in American Politics: From Law and Order to Willie Horton and Beyond

3. Race, Crime, and Public Opinion

4. Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Criminality and Victimization

5. Race, Crime, and Policing

6. Racial Disparities in Prosecution, Sentencing, and Punishment

7. Race and Drugs

8. Case Study: Living the Drama-Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys

9. Case Study: African-American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

PART II RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRIME IN OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

10. Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

11. Ethnicities, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales

12. Indigenous People and Sentencing Courts in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada

13. Colonial Processes, Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems

14. Case Study: Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare State Race, Politics, and Street Capital in Norway

15. Case Study: Black Homicide Victimization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PART III ETHNICITY, CRIME, AND IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES

16. The Politics of Immigration and Crime

17. Traffickers? Terrorists? Smugglers? Immigrants in the United States and International Crime before World War II

18. Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in the United States: Crimes By and Against Immigrants

19. Immigration and Crime in U.S. Communities: Charting Some Promising New Directions in Research

20. Immigrants and Their Children: Evidence on Generational Differences in Crime

21. Latino/Hispanic Immigration and Crime

22. Case Study: Criminalizing Settlement: The Politics of Immigration in the American South

23. The Law of Immigration and Crime

PART IV ETHNICITY, CRIME, AND IMMIGRATION IN OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

24. Searching (with Minimal Success) for Links between Immigration and Imprisonment

25. Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in France

26. The Convergence of Control: Immigration and Crime in Contemporary Japan

27. Ethnicity, Migration, and Crime in the Netherlands

28. Immigration, Crime, and Criminalization in Italy

29. Case Study: Sentencing Violent Juvenile Offenders in Color Blind France: Does Ethnicity Matter?

30. Case Study: Lost and Found: Christianity, Conversion, and Gang Disaffiliation in Guatemala

31. Case Study: Immigration, Social Exclusion, and Informal Economies: Muslim Immigrants in Frankfurt; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780199984558

0199984557

9780199859023

0199859027

OCLC:

1111975746