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Title	The myth of immigrant criminality and the paradox of assimilation incarceration rates among native and foreign-born men
Subject	Immigrants--Criminal behavior. Immigrants--United States. Assimilation (Sociology).
Creator	Rumbaut, Rubén G.
Rights	This work may be protected by copyright. It was originally published on the free Web and has been harvested for preservation purposes under a claim of fair use. Please consult the work itself for additional statements regarding copyright ownership and permissions. Access to this work is provided here for educational purposes only. If you are a copyright owner who objects to the preservation of your work in this fashion, or if you believe that your copyright has been violated by the project's efforts, please make that concern known to the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group, and the work will be removed from the digital archive.
Description	Also available in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/images/File/specialreport/Imm%20Criminality%20(IPC).pdf on May 23, 2008.; "Special Report."; "Spring 2007."; Title taken from title screen (viewed March 6, 2007).; Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).
Publisher	Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation
Contributors	Ewing, Walter A.; Immigration Policy Center (American Immigration Law Foundation).
Format	application/pdf
URL-Identifier	http://www.ailf.org/ipc/special_report/sr_022107.pdf
Language	eng
Relation	http://worldcat.org/oclc/85779539/viewonline
Description-Abstract	Because many immigrants to the United States, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, are young men who arrive with very low levels of formal education, popular stereotypes tend to associate them with higher rates of crime and incarceration. The fact that many of these immigrants enter the country through unauthorized channels or overstay their visas often is framed as an assault against the "rule of law" thereby reinforcing the impression that immigration and criminality are linked. This association has flourished in a post-9/11 climate of fear and ignorance where terrorism and undocumented immigration often are mentioned in the same breath. But anecdotal impression cannot substitute for scientific evidence. In fact, data from the census and other sources show that for every ethnic group without exception, incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants, even those who are the least educated. This holds true especially for the Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans who make up the bulk of the undocumented population. What is more, these patterns have been observed consistently over the last three decennial censuses, a period that spans the current era of mass immigration, and recall similar national-level findings reported by three major government commissions during the first three decades of the 20th century. The problem of crime in the United States is not "caused" or even aggravated by immigrants, regardless of their legal status. But the misperception that the opposite is true persists among policymakers, the media, and the general public, thereby undermining the development of reasoned public responses to both crime and immigration.
Format-Extent	16 p. : digital, PDF file.
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OCLC number	85779539

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