Theories about group differences in violence have primarily been developed in reference to
blacks and whites. Latino Homicide provides an important extension beyond traditional …

Latino Homicide, as its author Ramiro Martinez, Jr. ironically suggests, carries the potential
for reinforcing the long-held notion of Latinos' violent nature even though the empirical …

Objective. Although Latinos are fast becoming the largest ethnic minority group, they remain
an underresearched population. In this paper we contribute to the nascent field of Latino …

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the
conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities …

Ramiro Martinez, who earned his doctorate from Ohio State University, is an assistant
professor with the University of Delaware's Sociology and Criminal Justice Department. His …

Objective. Despite the perceived relationship between immigration and crime, scholars have
advanced largely contradictory images of the effects of Latino immigration to urban areas …

There are considerable race and ethnic disparities in violence across the nation. Public
health data illustrate that Latinos were three times more likely than non-Latino Whites to be a …

The growing body of research on immigration and crime consistently finds that immigration,
contrary to both criminological theory and popular sentiment, is not related to higher levels of …

In response to the tremendous growth of the Latino and Latino immigrant populations over
the past thirty years, there has been an increase in both studies that examine the effects of …

The study of ethnicity and homicide usually involves research on racial and ethnic
differences in crime patterns or the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities …