Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a
deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent …

In 1995, Sampson & Wilson assessed the state of knowledge on race and violence and set
forth an approach for future research. We review macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity …

Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of
police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police …

Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and
crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration …

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

Drawing on structural racism and urban disadvantage approaches, this article posits a broad
influence of citywide racial residential segregation on levels of violent crime across all urban …

We extend existing research on police use of coercive mechanisms of social control against
racial/ethnic minority populations by testing three structural hypotheses regarding excessive …

Objectives. The idea that immigration increases crime rates has historically occupied an
important role in criminological theory and has been central to the public and political …

Despite popular commentary claiming a link between immigration and crime, empirical
research exploring this relationship is sparse. Especially missing from the literature on …

Emerging research associated with the “immigration revitalization” perspective suggests that
immigration has been labeled inaccurately as a cause of crime in contemporary society. In …