Criminal Law

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

Edited by Sandra M. Bucerius · Michael Tonry
Oxford University Press USA April 2019

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ISBN-13
9780190947330
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication
April 2019
Format
Paperback , 960 pages
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U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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  • The first handbook to consider the topics of race and crime, ethnicity and crime, and immigration and crime together.
  • Edited by leading scholars in the social sciences research ethnicity, crime, and immigration.

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.

Readership: Students and scholars of criminology and criminal justice, race and ethnic relations, international relations, public policy, and sociology.

Table of 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 Roché
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

About the Author

Sandra M. Bucerius is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Alberta. Michael Tonry is professor of law and public policy and director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement in Amsterdam.

 

Contributors: 
Luca Berardi is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.
Sophie Body-Gendrot is emeritus professor of political science and American studies at University Paris-Sorbonne and a researcher in criminology at CNRS (French National Scientific Research).
Colin Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Sandra M. Bucerius is assistant professor of criminology at the University of Toronto.
Stefania Crocitti, Ph.D. in criminology, is now a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Bologna, Italy.
Chris Cunneen is professor of justice and social inclusion at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia.
Marie-Aude Depuiset, PhD in social psychology, is research assistant at LIG & PACTE.
Stephanie M. DiPietro is assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis. 
Riley Downie is research assistant and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Godfried Engbersen is professor of sociology at Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Robin S. Engel is associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati and director of the University of Cincinnati, Institute of Crime Science (ICS). 
Mary Fan is associate professor of law at the University of Washington Law School.
Jamie Fellner is senior advisor for the United States Program of Human Rights Watch.
Mirta B. Gordon is emeritus research scientist from CNRS, at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France.
David J. Harding is associate professor of sociology and public policy and research associate professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Jennifer Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
David T. Johnson is professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii. 
Paul Knepper is professor of criminology in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield.
Charis E. Kubrin is associate professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California-Irvine.
Arjen Leerkes is assistant professor of sociology at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. 
Amy E. Lerman is assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University.
Toya Like-Haislip is assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Missouri-Kanses City.
Elena Marchetti is professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia. 
Ramiro Martinez Jr. is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University.
Douglas S. Massey is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.
Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco serves as executive director of the Justitia Institute and is an instructor in the University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Jody Miller is professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University.
Kevin Lewis O'Neill is assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto.
Akawasi Owusu-Bempah is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology.
Alpa Parmar, Ph.D., is principal research fellow at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK.
Sebastian Roché is senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), and director of the "Security and Cohesion" department at the PATCE (Centre de Recherche sur le Politique, l'Administration, le ville et la territoire) and of Sciences Po (Institute of Political Science), University of Grenoble, France.
Sveinung Sandberg, PhD, is senior research fellow in the department of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo.
Jessica T. Simes is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Harvard University and fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. 
Erik Snel is assistant professor in the Sociology Department of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. 
Cassia Spohn is a Foundation Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University.
Jacob Stowell is associate professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University.
Kristin Swartz is assistant professor of justice administration at University of Louisville.
Sara K. Thompson, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Michael Tonry is professor of law and public policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. 
Glenn A. Trager is an attorney with public counsel in Los Angeles and is continuing research at the University of California-Irvine.
James D. Unnever is professor of criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
Mary C. Waters is M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
Vesla M. Weaver is assistant professor of political science and African-American studies at Yale University.
Jamie Winders is associate professor of geography at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
Scot Wortley is associate professor of criminology at University of Toronto Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies.
Ryoko Yamamoto is assistant professor of sociology at SUNY College at Old Westbury.

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