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1 online resource (961 pages) |
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Cover; ETHNICITY, CRIME, AND IMMIGRATION; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; List of Contributors; Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration; 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 |
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8. Case Study: Living the Drama-Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys9. 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 |
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14. Case Study: Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare State Race, Politics, and Street Capital in Norway15. 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 |
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20. Immigrants and Their Children: Evidence on Generational Differences in Crime21. 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 |
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28. Immigration, Crime, and Criminalization in Italy29. 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 |
| Summary |
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration 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. 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 crim |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199859023 |
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0199859027 |
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