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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299864903321

Autore

McDonald William F

Titolo

The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants [[electronic resource] /] / by William F. McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-69062-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

Disciplina

364.30869120973

Soggetti

Victimology

Public safety

Human rights

Criminology

Violence

Crime

Emigration and immigration

Crime Control and Security

Human Rights and Crime

Violence and Crime

Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.