MT Light, T Miller - Criminology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration …
WA Ewing, D Martinez, RG Rumbaut - Washington, DC: American …, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit …
This article assesses the claim that sanctuary cities—defined as cities that expressly forbid city officials or police departments from inquiring into an individual's immigration status—are …
Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine—it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage—the …
CJ Lyons, MB Vélez… - American Sociological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a multilevel comparative framework, we propose that politically receptive city contexts facilitate the viability of marginalized neighborhoods. To illustrate this proposition, we …
R Adelman, LW Reid, G Markle, S Weiss… - Journal of ethnicity in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical …
JP Steil, IB Vasi - American Journal of Sociology, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Analyzing oppositional social movements in the context of municipal immigration ordinances, the authors examine whether the explanatory power of resource mobilization …
BE Bersani - Justice Quarterly, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The myth of the criminal immigrant has permeated public and political debate for much of this nation's history and persists despite growing evidence to the contrary. Crime concerns …