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Does immigration increase crime? : migration policy and the creation of the criminal immigrant
\"Butcher and Piehl (1998) provide the first systematic economic analysis of immigration and crime rates,showing that immigration did not lead to a significant increase in crime across U.S.cities over the period 1980-1990. Reid et al.(2005) and Wadsworth (2010) reach the same conclusion when looking at more recent periods.Moving to European countries, Bianchi et al.(2012) conclude that immigration did not increased crime across Italian provinces,while Alonso-Borrego et al.(2012) estimate a positive relationship between immigration and crime in Spain. Finally,Bell et al.(2013) focus on two large waves of recent UK immigration,namely the late 1990s /early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries,respectively. They find that only in the former case there was a significant increase in (property) crimes. Legal status may profoundly affect criminal behaviour by changing the relative payoffs of legitimate and illegitimate activities. In most destination countries,legal status is a prerequisite for working in the official economy.Therefore,undocumented immigrants are excluded from legitimate economic activities or they may be able to work just in the shadow economy.In either case,they would face worse (legitimate) income opportunities compared to legal immigrants and thus a lower opportunity cost of crime. In spite of the importance of the relationship between immigration police and crime for the debate on immigration reforms currently taking place in the United States as well as in many European countries,there is very little empirical evidence on this topic\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Immigrants and Crime in the New Destinations
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.
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Birthplace, migration and crime : the Australian experience
Issues surrounding the migration of human beings are some of the most pressing of our time. Through both historical and contemporary material, this book builds on the author's previous work in the area to explore the landscape of crime and migration in Australia. Focusing primarily upon the Australian experience, but illuminated by studies in other countries and at other times, Professor Francis provides a comprehensive account of crime and migration, linking migration policy with criminality and mental health and arguing that it is birthplace, not race, which impacts upon crimes committed by migrants. Covering a diverse range of issues from the police, courts and prisons to victimology and immigration policy, this book will appeal to scholars across Criminology, Sociology, Law, Migration Studies and Politics.
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Immigration and crime: race, ethnicity, and violence
The original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime covers both a variety of immigrant groups--mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America--and a variety of topics including: victimization, racial conflict, juvenile delinquency, exposure to violence, homicide, drugs, gangs, and border violence. The volume provides important insights about past understandings of immigration and crime, many based on theories that have proven to be untrue or racially biased, as well as offering new scholarship on salient topics. Overall, the contributors argue that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime rather than the perpetrators. Contributors: Avraham Astor, Carl L. Bankston III, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., Roberto G. Gonzales, Sang Hea Kil, Golnaz Komaie, Jennifer Lee, Matthew T. Lee, Ramiro Martínez, Jr., Cecilia Menjívar, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Charlie V. Morgan, Amie L. Nielsen, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Min Zhou.
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The criminalization of migration : context and consequences
With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refuggees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune from these practices. This book examines the \"crimmigration\" -- the criminalization of migration -- from national and comparative perspectives, drawing attention to the increasing use of criminal law measures, public policies, and practices that stigmatize or diminish the rights of forced migrants and regugees within a dominant public discourse that not only steoreotypes and criminalizes but marginalized forced migrants. -- Provided by publisher.
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Crime on the Border
Examines relationship between ethnicity, immigration, and homicide within Latino and African American communities in El Paso, Texas, Miami, Florida, and San Diego, California; finds immigration does not disrupts communities or facilitates crime.
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The Crimmigrant Other
Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the \"crimmigrant other\" has emerged not only as a central object of media and political discourse, but also as a distinct penal subject connecting migration and the logic of criminalisation and insecurity. Illegality defines not only a quality of certain acts, but becomes an existential condition, which shapes the daily lives of large groups within the society. Drawing on rich empirical material from national and international contexts, Katja Franko outlines the social production of the crimmigrant other as a multi-layered phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the intricate connections between law, scientific knowledge, bureaucratic practices, politics, and popular discourse.
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Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism
Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints. This highly topical area of contestation is examined here with experts from Europe, the USA, Turkey and Israel examining recent developments in the fields of culture conflict, organized crime, victimization and terrorism, all of which intersect to varying degrees with migration and illegal conduct.
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Immigration-crime link. On falseness and inevitability
As a key outcome of the book, a statistical analysis will be carried out to confirm social groups´ homogeneity and confrontation within the Spanish society. Data for the statistical analysis are taken from Survey number 2967 of 2012 of Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). The statistical analysis is very important to understand how identity theories work in Spanish society. Indeed, social identities within the Spanish society are homogeneous, dialectical, and confrontational. Therefore, answers of respondents on immigration-crime link are necessarily homogeneous, dialectical and confrontational. Hence the paradox “on falseness and inevitability\".
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