The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

by Sandra M. Bucerius (Editor), Michael Tonry (Editor)

Overview

Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime and disorder. Members of some disadvantaged groups in all developed countries, sometimes long-standing residents and other times recent immigrants, experience unwarranted disparities in their dealings with the criminal justice system. Accusations of unfair treatment by police and courts are common. The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration provides comprehensive analyses of current knowledge about these and a host of related subjects. Topics include legal and illegal immigration, ethnic and race relations, and discrimination and exclusion, and their links to crime in the United States and elsewhere. Leading scholars from sociology, criminology, law, psychology, geography, and political science document and explore relations among race, ethnicity, immigration, and crime.

Individual chapters provide in-depth critical overviews of key issues, controversies, and research. Contributors present the historical backdrops of their subjects, describe population characteristics, and summarize relevant data and research findings. Most articles provide synopses of racial, ethnic, immigration, and justice-related concerns and offer policy recommendations and proposals for future research. Some articles are case studies of particular problems in particular places, including juvenile incarceration, homicide, urban violence, social exclusion, and other issues disproportionately affecting disadvantaged minority groups. The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration is the first major effort to examine and synthesize knowledge concerning immigration and crime, ethnicity and crime, and race and crime in one volume, and does so both for the United States and for many other countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190947330
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	962
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Sandra M. Bucerius is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Alberta.

Michael Tonry is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy, Director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a Scientific Member of Germany's Max Planck Society. He is also Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement in Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Introduction on Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration
Michael Tonry and Sandra M. Bucerius

Section 1: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in the United States
1. The Racialization of Latinos in the United States
Douglas S. Massey
2. Race and Crime in American Politics From Law and Order to Willie Horton and Beyond
Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver
3. Race, Crime, and Public Opinion
James D. Unnever
4. Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Criminality and Victimization
Toya Like-Haislip
5. Race, Crime, and Policing
Robin S. Engel and Kristin Swartz
6. Racial Disparities in Prosecution, Sentencing, and Punishment
Cassia Spohn
7. Race and Drugs
Jamie Fellner
8. Case Study: Living the Drama-Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner City Boys
David J. Harding
9. Case Study: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Jody Miller

Section 2: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in Other Developed Countries
10. Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Scot Wortley
11. Ethnicities, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales
Alpa Parmar
12. Indigenous People and Sentencing Courts in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
Elena Marchetti and Riley Downie
13 Colonial Processes, Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems
Chris Cunneen
14. Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare State: Race, Politics, and Street Capital in Norway
Sveinung Sandberg
15. Case Study: Black Homicide Victimization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sara K. Thompson

Section 3: Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in the United States
16. The Politics of Immigration and Crime
Jessica T. Simes and Mary C. Waters
17. Traffickers? Terrorists? Smugglers? Immigrants in the United States and International Crime before World War II
Paul Knepper
18. Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in the United States: Crimes By and Against Immigrants
Jacob Stowell and Stephanie DiPietro
19. Immigration and Crime in U.S. Communities: Charting Some Promising New Directions in Research
Charis E. Kubrin and Glenn A. Trager
20. Immigrants and their Children: Evidence on Generational Differences in Crime
Luca Berardi and Sandra M. Bucerius
21. Latino/Hispanic Immigration and Crime
Ramiro Martinez and Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
22. Criminalizing Settlement: The Politics of Immigration in the American South
Jamie Winders
23. The Law of Immigration and Crime
Mary Fan

Section 4: Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in Other Developed Countries
24. Searching (with Minimal Success) for Links between Immigration and Imprisonment
Jennifer Hochschild and Colin Brown
25. Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in France
Sophie Body-Gendrot
26. The Convergence of Control: Immigration and Crime in Contemporary Japan
Ryoko Yamamoto and David Johnson
27. Ethnicity, Migration, and Crime in the Netherlands
Godfried Engbersen, Arjen Leerkes, and Erik Snel
28. Immigration, Crime, and Criminalization in Italy
Stefania Crocitti
29. Case Study: Sentencing Violent Juvenile Offenders in Color Blind France: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Sebastian Roché, Mirta B. Gordon, and Marie-Aude Depuiset
30. Lost and Found: Christianity, Conversion, and Gang Disaffiliation in Guatemala
Kevin L. O'Neill
31. Immigration, Social Exclusion, and Informal Economies: Muslim Immigrants in Frankfurt
Sandra M. Bucerius

Index