Overview
- Offers a timely review of victimization of immigrants and racial hate crime
- Examines macro and micro theories of victimization to explain the treatment of immigrants
- Incorporates qualitative, quantitative, and historical data from: the US, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and Australia
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.
McDonald examines a broad range of quantitative and qualitative data from historical and international sources including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and Spain. He writes with a view to correcting myths about the relationship between immigrants and crime, noting that immigrants are more likely to become victims than offenders.
The book outlines the multiple forms and contexts in which immigrants are victimized, exploited, and harmed. Reviewing micro- and macro-level victimological and sociological theories as they apply to patterns and forms of immigrants’ victimization, this study ultimately seeks to understand reasons for which immigrants are victimized by their own kind, and by persons outside their community.
McDonald examines a broad range of quantitative and qualitative data from historical and international sources including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and Spain. He writes with a view to correcting myths about the relationship between immigrants and crime, noting that immigrants are more likely to become victims than offenders.
The book outlines the multiple forms and contexts in which immigrants are victimized, exploited, and harmed. Reviewing micro- and macro-level victimological and sociological theories as they apply to patterns and forms of immigrants’ victimization, this study ultimately seeks to understand reasons for which immigrants are victimized by their own kind, and by persons outside their community.
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Keywords
- crime and immigration
- crime and ethnicity
- crime and migration
- hate crime
- race and crime
- human trafficking
- modern slavery
- citizenship
- domestic violence
- Victim-Offender Interactions
- Population Heterogeneity
- Residential Segregation
- Intra-Group Victimization
- Exploiting Immigrant Vulnerability
- Work Paper Scams
- Illegal Housing
- Coercive Labor
- Politics of Hate Crime
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Mail-Order Brides
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
William F. McDonald is Professor at the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University, USA; and Co- Director at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure at the Law Center, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants
Authors: William F. McDonald
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69062-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69061-2Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88709-8Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69062-9Published: 09 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 135
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Victimology, Crime Control and Security, Human Rights and Crime , Violence and Crime, Migration