Charis E Kubrin, Marjorie S Zatz and Ramiro Martínez (eds), Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics and Injustice
| Author | Maartje van der Woude |
| DOI | 10.1177/1462474514532322 |
| Date | 01 December 2014 |
| Published date | 01 December 2014 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
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then, Bogazianos offers a unique conceptualization of hip hop and urban culture
during the crack era for the critical criminologist and hip hop fan alike.
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William T Armaline
San Jose State University, California, USA
Charis E Kubrin, Marjorie S Zatz and Ramiro Martı
´nez (eds), Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics
and Injustice, New York University Press: New York, 2012; 263 pp. (including index):
9780814749036, $21.60 (pbk), $67.50 (cloth)
With Punishing Immigrants the editors want to move beyond the satisfactorily
addressed questions on the connection between immigration and crime in the
USA (p. 1). Whereas there is ample empirical evidence on the fact that, unlike
what is often portrayed by politicians and perceived by the general public, immi-
grants are not more crime-prone than non-immigrants, the editors underline the
necessity of exploring new questions in the field of immigration control. Punishing
Immigrants fully meets this goal: the nine chapters of the book broaden the focus of
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