Race, ethnicity, immigration, and crime

Abstract

The relationship between ethnicity, race, and antisocial behavior/crime continues to be a controversial topic throughout public perception and empirical research. An additional issue that has recently emerged that surrounds political, economic, and social concerns is the relationship between immigration and crime. Tying all of these concepts together, this chapter discusses the relationship between race, ethnicity, immigration, and crime throughout a life course and developmental perspective. In particular, statistics on criminal involvement and overall representation in the USA across race/ethnicity and immigration generation is discussed, with a particular focus on the onset, duration, frequency, persistence, and desistence from antisocial behavior.