Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice

Book Overview

Arizona's controversial new immigration bill is just the latest of many steps in the new criminalization of immigrants. While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less crime, and in particular less violent crime, than the native-born and that their presence in communities is not associated with higher crime rates. Punishing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814749038
• ISBN13: 9780814749036
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"