The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

The interrelationships among race, ethnicity, and crime have long been the subject of extensive research and considerable debate. Crime problems and disorder have often been attributed to immigrants and oppressed ethnic minorities, including the African Americans in the United States, Afro-Caribbeans in England and Wales, and indigenous populations of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. The Oxford Handbook for Ethnicity, Crime and Immigration explores the links among ethnicity, crime, and immigration in various countries such as the United States, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, England and Wales, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Guatemala. It reviews the extant research on crime committed by and against immigrants, examines the myth of immigrants’ tendency to commit crime, and looks at the historic and contemporary role of race in debates about punishment. It also discusses the interconnected nature of race, crime, and American politics over the past half century, criminal justice systems for indigenous peoples, racial and ethnic patterns in criminality and victimization, the relationship between crime and the law of immigration, the link between race and drugs, the racialization of Latinos in the United States, and racial disparities in prosecution, sentencing, and punishment.