Reviewed by Martha Escobar | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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*Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence.* Edited by Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Tables, graphs, bibliography, and index. $70.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
Increased immigration during the past three decades has coincided with a massive expansion in incarceration rates. Accordingly, public sentiment often associates immigration with crime. However, neither criminology nor immigration studies has extensively considered the relationship between the two, and thus the view that immigrants are responsible for increased crime rates is largely founded on public hysteria rather than empirical analysis. In Immigration and Crime, Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr. examine patterns in the two phenomena to counter the public image of immigrants as criminals. It is the deconstruction of immigrant criminality, then, that lies at the center of this book.	1
To understand the relationship between immigration and crime, Martinez and Valenzuela bring together a range of scholars who employ a variety of methodologies, including some that make revisions to existing theoretical perspectives. A valuable aspect of this collection is the way the authors employ varied methods to address a range of issues, including immigrant victimization, perceptions of intergroup conflict, generational differences, and the criminalization of immigrants.	. . .

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