A Closer Look at the Paradox: Examining Immigration and Youth Reoffending in Arizona

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 882-904

  Wright, Kevin A ^a   Rodriguez, Nancy ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

immigrant paradox; immigration; youth reoffending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904256318     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2012.700057     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Bazemore, G., & Erbe, C. (2004). Reintegration and restorative justice: Towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support. In S. Maruna, & R. Immarigeon (Eds.), After crime and punishment: Pathways to offender reintegration (pp. 27-56). Portland, OR: Willam.
2. Butcher, K. F., & Piehl, A. M. (1998). Cross-city evidence on the relationship between immigration and crime. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17, 457-493.
3. Cancino, J. M., Martinez, R., & Stowell, J. I. (2009). The impact of neighborhood context on intragroup and intergroup gobbery: The San Antonio experience. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 623, 12-24.
4. Chiswick, B. R., & Miller, P. W. (2005). Do enclaves matter in immigrant adjustment? City and Community, 4, 5-35.
5. Clear, T. R., Waring, E., & Scully, K. (2005). Communities and reentry: Concentrated reentry cycling. In J. Travis, & C. Visher (Eds.), Prisoner reentry and crime in America (pp. 179-208). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
6. Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94, S95-S120.
7. Desmond, S. A., & Kubrin, C. E. (2009). The power of place: Immigrant communities and adolescent violence. The Sociological Quarterly, 50, 581-607.
8. Frey, W. H. (2011). America's diverse future: Initial glimpses at the US child population from the 2010 Census. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
9. Graif, C., & Sampson, R. J. (2009). Spatial heterogeneity in the effects of immigration and diversity on neighborhood homicide rates. Homicide Studies, 13, 242-260.
10. Grunwald, H. E., Lockwood, B., Harris, P. W., & Mennis, J. (2010). Influences of neighborhood context, individual history and parenting behavior on recidivism among juvenile offenders. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 1067-1079.
11. Hagan, J., & Palloni, A. (1999). Sociological criminology and the mythology of Hispanic immigration and crime. Social Problems, 46, 617-632.
12. Hartley, R. D., & Tillyer, R. (2012). Defending the homeland: Judicial sentencing practices for federal immigration offenses. Justice Quarterly, 29, 76-104.
13. Haynie, D. L., & Payne, D. C. (2006). Race, friendship networks, and violent delinquency. Criminology, 44, 775-805.
14. Hickman, L. J., & Suttorp, M. J. (2008). Are deportable aliens a unique threat to public safety? Comparing the recidivism of deportable and nondeportable aliens. Criminology & Public Policy, 7, 59-82.
15. Katz, C. M., Fox, A. M., & White, M. D. (2011). Assessing the relationship between immigration status and drug use. Justice Quarterly, 28, 541-575.
16. Kubrin, C. E., & Stewart, E. A. (2006). Predicting who reoffends: The neglected role of neighborhood context in recidivism studies. Criminology, 44, 165-197.
17. Lauritsen, J. L., & Carbone-Lopez, K. (2011). Gender differences in risk factors for violent victimization: An examination of individual-, family-, and community-level predictors. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 48, 538-565.
18. Lee, M. T., & Martinez, R. (2009). Immigration reduces crime: An emerging scholarly consensus. In W. F. McDonald (Ed.), Sociology of crime, law and deviance (pp. 3-16). Bingley: Emerald.
19. Lee, M. T., Martinez, R., & Rosenfeld, R. (2001). Does immigration increase homicide? Negative evidence from three border cities. The Sociological Quarterly, 42, 559-580.
20. Lewis, O. (1965). La vida: A Puerto Rican family in the culture of poverty. New York, NY: Random House.
21. Lin, N. (1986). Conceptualizing social support. In N. Lin, A. Dean, & W. M. Ensel (Eds.), Social support, life events, and depression (pp. 17-30). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
22. Martinez, R. (2006). Coming to America: The impact of the new immigration on crime. In R. Martinez, & A. Valenzuela (Eds.), Immigration and crime: Race, ethnicity, and violence (pp. 1-19). New York, NY: New York University Press.
23. Martinez, R., & Lee, M. T. (1999). Comparing the context of immigrant homicides in Miami: Haitians, Jamaicans, and Mariels. International Migration Review, 34, 794-812.
24. Martinez, R., & Lee, M. T. (2000). On immigration and crime. In G. LaFree, & R. J. Bursik (Eds.), Criminal Justice 2000: The changing nature of crime (pp. 485-524). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
25. Martinez, R., Lee, M. T., & Nielsen, A. L. (2004). Segmented assimilation, local context and determinants of drug violence in Miami and San Diego: Does ethnicity and immigration matter? International Migration Review, 38, 131-157.
26. Martinez, R., Stowell, J. I., & Lee, M. T. (2010). Immigration and crime in an era of transformation: A longitudinal analysis of homicides in San Diego neighborhoods, 1980-2000. Criminology, 48, 797-829.
27. Mears, D. P. (2001). The immigration-crime nexus: Toward an analytic framework for assessing and guiding theory, research, and policy. Sociological Perspectives, 44, 1-19.
28. Mears, D. P., Wang, X., Hay, C., & Bales, W. D. (2008). Social ecology and recidivism: Implications for prisoner reentry. Criminology, 46, 301-340.
29. Menjivar, C., & Bejarano, C. (2004). Latino immigrants' perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States: A case study from the Phoenix metropolitan area. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27, 120-148.
30. Miller, J. (2008). Getting played: African American girls, urban inequality, and gendered violence. New York, NY: New York University Press.
31. Morenoff, J. D., & Astor, A. (2006). Immigrant assimilation and crime: Generational differences in youth violence in Chicago. In R. Martinez, & A. Valenzuela (Eds.), Immigration and crime: Race, ethnicity, and violence (pp. 36-63). New York, NY: New York University Press.
32. Nielsen, A. L., Lee, M. T., & Martinez, R. (2005). Integrating race, place and motive in social disorganization theory: Lessons from a comparison of Black and Latino homicide types in two immigrant destination cities. Criminology, 43, 837-872.
33. Ousey, G. C., & Kubrin, C. E. (2009). Exploring the connection between immigration and violent crime rates in US cities, 1980-2000. Social Problems, 56, 447-473.
34. Peterson, R. D., & Krivo, L. J. (2005). Macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity, and violent crime: Recent lessons and new directions for research. Annual Review of Sociology, 31, 331-356.
35. Portes, A., & Rumbaut, R. G. (2001). Legacies: The story of the immigrant second generation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
36. Portes, A., & Stepick, A. (1993). City on the edge: The transformation of Miami. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
37. Raudenbush, S., & Byrk, A. (2002). Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
38. Reid, L. W., Weiss, H. E., Adelman, R. M., & Jaret, C. (2005). The immigration-crime relationship: Evidence across US metropolitan areas. Social Science Research, 34, 757-780.
39. Reisig, M. D., Bales, W. D., Hay, C., & Wang, X. (2007). The effect of racial inequality on Black male recidivism. Justice Quarterly, 24, 408-434.
40. Sampson, R. J. (2008). Rethinking crime and immigration. Contexts, 7, 28-33.
41. Sampson, R. J., & Bartusch, D. J. (1998). Legal cynicism and (subcultural?) tolerance of deviance: The neighborhood context of racial differences. Law & Society Review, 32, 777-804.
42. Shihadeh, E. S., & Barranco, R. E. (2010). Latino employment and Black violence: The unintended consequence of US immigration policy. Social Forces, 88, 1393-1420.
43. Steffensmeier, D., Ulmer, J. T., Feldmeyer, B., & Harris, C. T. (2010). Scope and conceptual issues in testing the race-crime invariance thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic comparisons. Criminology, 48, 1133-1169.
44. Stowell, J. I., & Martinez, R. (2009). Incorporating ethnic-specific measures of immigration in the study of lethal violence. Homicide Studies, 13, 315-324.
45. Stowell, J. I., Messner, S. F., McGeever, K. F., & Faffalovich, L. E. (2009). Immigration and the recent violent crime drop in the United States: A pooled, cross-sectional time-series analysis of metropolitan areas. Criminology, 47, 889-928.
46. Sullivan, M. L. (2004). Youth perspectives on the experience of reentry. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2, 56-71.
47. Sullivan, C. J. (2011). The utility of the deviant case in the development of criminological theory. Criminology, 49, 905-920.
48. Tillyer, M. S., & Vose, B. (2011). Social ecology, individual risk, and recidivism: A multilevel examination of main and moderating influences. Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 452-459.
49. Tonry, M. (1997). Ethnicity, crime and immigration. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime & justice: A review of research (pp. 1-29). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
50. United States Census Bureau. (2000). Summary file 3. [online]. Retrieved from: http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_3/
51. Velez, M. B. (2009). Contextualizing the immigration and crime effect: An analysis of homicide in Chicago neighborhoods. Homicide Studies, 13, 325-335.
52. Wang, X., Mears, D. P., & Bales, W. D. (2010). Race-specific employment contexts and recidivism. Criminology, 48, 1171-1211.
53. Wright, E. M., & Benson, M. L. (2010). Immigration and intimate partner violence: Exploring the immigration paradox. Social Problems, 57, 480-503.
54. Wright, K. A., Pratt, T. C., Lowenkamp, C. T., & Latessa, E. J. (2011). The importance of ecological context for correctional rehabilitation programs: Understanding the micro- and macro-level dimensions of successful offender treatment. Justice Quarterly. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2011.583933.
55. Zatz, M. S., & Smith, H. (forthcoming). Immigration, crime and victimization: Rhetoric and reality. Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
56. Zatz, M. S., & Portillos, E. L. (2000). Voices from the barrio: Chicano/a gangs, families, and communities. Criminology, 38, 369-402.
57. Zimmerman, G. M., & Messner, S. F. (2010). Neighborhood context and the gender gap in adolescent violent crime. American Sociological Review, 75, 958-980.