Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction on Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration ; Michael Tonry, Sandra Bucerius ; Section 1: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in the United States ; 1. Race and Crime in American History ; Michael Tonry ; 2. The Racialization of Latinos in the United States ; Douglas S. Massey ; 3. Race and Crime in American Politics: From Law and Order to Willie Horton and Beyond ; Amy E. Lerman ; Vesla M. Weaver ; 4. Race, Crime, and Public Opinion ; James D. Unnever ; 5. Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Criminality and Victimization ; Toya Like-Haislip ; 6. Race, Crime, and Policing ; Robin S. Engel ; Kristin Swartz ; 7. Racial Disparities in Prosecution, Sentencing, and Punishment ; Cassia Spohn ; 8. Race and Drugs ; Jamie Fellner ; 9. Case Study: Living the Drama-Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner City Boys ; David J. Harding ; 10. Case Study: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence ; Jodie Miller ; Section 2: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in Other Developed Countries ; 11. Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada ; Akwasi Owusu-Bempah ; Scot Wortley ; 12. Ethnicity, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales ; Alpa Parmar ; 13. Indigenous People and Sentencing Courts in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada ; Elena Marchetti ; Riley Downie ; 14 Colonial Processes, Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems ; Chris Cunneen ; 15. Case Study: Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare State: Race, Politics, and Street Capital in Norway ; Sveinung Sandberg ; 16. Case Study: Black Homicide Victimization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Sara Thompson ; Section 3: Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in the United States ; 17. The Politics of Immigration and Crime ; Mary C. Waters ; Jessica T. Simes ; 18. Traffickers? Terrorists? Smugglers? Immigrants in the United States and ; International Crime before the Second World War ; Paul Knepper ; 19. Crimes By and Against Immigrants ; Jacob Stowell ; Stephanie Di Pietro ; 20. Immigration and Crime in US Communities: Charting Some Promising New Directions in Research ; Charis E. Kubrin ; Glenn A. Trager ; 21. Immigrants and their Children: Evidence on Generational Differences in Crime ; Luca Berardi ; Sandra Bucerius ; 22. Latino/Hispanic Immigration and Crime ; Ramiro Martinez ; Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco ; 23. Criminalizing Settlement: The Politics of Immigration in the American South ; Jamie Winders ; 24. The Law of Immigration and Crime ; Mary Fan ; Section 4: Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in Other Developed Countries ; 25. Searching (with Minimal Success) for Links among Immigration and Imprisonment ; Jennifer Hochschild ; Colin Brown ; 26. Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration in France ; Sophie Body-Gendrot ; 27. The Convergence of Control: Immigration and Crime in Contemporary Japan ; Ryoko Yamamoto ; David Johnson ; 28. Ethnicity, Migration, and Crime in the Netherlands ; Godfried Engbersen ; Arjen Leerkes ; Erik Snel ; 29. Immigration, Crime, and Criminalization in Italy ; Stefania Crocitti ; 30. Case Study: Sentencing Violent Juvenile Offenders in Color Blind France: Does Ethnicity Matter? ; Sebastian Roche ; Mirta B. Gordon ; Marie-Aude Depuiset ; 31. Case Study: Lost and Found: Christianity, Conversion, and Gang Disaffiliation in Guatemala ; Kevin O'Neill ; 32. Case Study: Immigration, Social Exclusion, and Informal Economies: Muslim Immigrants in Frankfurt ; Sandra Bucerius ; Index
