The number of refugees across the globe is at an alarming high and is expected to continue
to rise for the foreseeable future. As a result, finding durable solutions for refugees has …

In the 50 years since its inception, racial threat theory has gained substantial traction across
the social sciences and been widely embraced by scholars studying race, power structures …

The concept of group threat—also known as social threat, racial threat, or minority threat—
that motivates substantial criminological inquiry, both theoretical and empirical, have its …

Objectives Because of the merging of immigration control and criminal justice, or
“crimmigration,” state and local police increasingly drive interior immigration enforcement …

Immigration control is at the center of the political debate and it is an important component of
the Trump administration agenda. Restrictive immigration policies have expanded under the …

The criminal immigrant narrative (CIN) is the embodiment of stereotypes suggesting that
foreign nationals are engaged in crime. Research has documented how this narrative has …

Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The
early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination …

Research shows that federal punishment disparity between Hispanic and white defendants
varies according to federal district court contexts. Recent sociological scholarship has also …

We outline four connections between xenophobia and punitiveness toward criminals in a
national sample of Americans. First, among self-identified whites xenophobia is more …

This research investigates individual's support for social provisions and rights of Syrian
refugees in Turkey. Support is examined in relation to perceived threat of Syrian refugees …