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The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants: A Meta Survey

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The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants

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Abstract

Data from international and historical sources show that immigrants: are at greater risk of criminal and civil victimization than native-born people; are usually victimized by fellow immigrants; are often the victims of hate crime; and are vulnerable to victimization by virtue of lacking knowledge of the culture and resources needed to cope.

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  1. 1.

    Georgios Antonopoulos (2002) summarized the related literature this way:

    Research has shown that in industrialised, developed societies in general, ethnic minorities and migrants are being victimised to a larger extent than the general population, and that a large part of this victimisation is a result of crimes committed by offenders of the same (minority or migrant) group.

  2. 2.

    Pogrebin and Poole (1990). “In many ways, the Jackson Heights [New York] and Logan [Philadelphia] samples were similar. For example, the majority of incidents in both samples involved perpetrators from the same ethnic group as the victims. This finding is consistent with other studies that suggest immigrants often prey on each other rather than on outsiders” (Davis and Erez 1998).

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    Sorenson and Shen (1996).

  4. 4.

    Sorenson and Lew (2000).

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    Monkkonen (1995).

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    Killias (1997: 21).

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    Song (1992).

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    Barbagli (2008: Chap. 6).

  9. 9.

    Barbagli (2008: fn. 17).

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    Biafora and Warheit (2007) .

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    Biafora and Warheit (2007 : 45).

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    Biafora and Warheit (2007: 46).

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    Biafora and Warheit (2007: 51).

  14. 14.

    Martinez Jr. (1997) .

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    Antonopoulos (2002).

  16. 16.

    de Haan (1997: 209).

  17. 17.

    Martens (1997: 236).

  18. 18.

    Martens (1997: 236).

  19. 19.

    Martens (1997: 237).

  20. 20.

    Martens (1997: 237).

  21. 21.

    Martens (1997: 238).

  22. 22.

    McClintock (1963).

  23. 23.

    McClintock (1963).

  24. 24.

    FitzGerald and Hale (1997).

  25. 25.

    Surveys conducted in London in 1981 and 1985 showed a somewhat different pattern of victimization by ethnic groups. See Smith (1997: 1104).

  26. 26.

    Surveys conducted in London in 1981 and 1985 showed a somewhat different pattern of victimization by ethnic groups. See Smith (1997: 1104).

  27. 27.

    Smith (1997).

  28. 28.

    FitzGerald and Hale (1997: 49). See also FitzGerald and Hale (1996).

  29. 29.

    FitzGerald and Hale (1997: 56).

  30. 30.

    Smith (1997: 1102).

  31. 31.

    Mukherjee (1999: 110).

  32. 32.

    Mukherjee (1999: 2).

  33. 33.

    Makkai and Taylor (2009 ) .

  34. 34.

    Makkai and Taylor (2009: 100-ff).

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McDonald, W.F. (2018). The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants: A Meta Survey. In: The Criminal Victimization of Immigrants. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69062-9_3

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