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| Title |
Immigrants and Criminality: A Meta Survey |
| Year |
1996 |
| Publisher |
Metropolis Project and the Strategic Policy, Planning and Research Branch of Citizenship and Immigration Canada |
| Publisher URL |
http://canada.metropolis.net/research-policy/litreviews/yger_rev/yger_rev-01.html |
| Book or Report URL |
http://canada.metropolis.net/research-policy/litreviews/yger_rev/yger_rev-01.html |
| Publication Type |
Report -Survey |
| Pages |
41. |
| Location |
CRRF+Online |
| CRRF Identifier |
Ref-LR-UP-1208 |
| Subject |
Reference; Literature Reviews; Immigration & Settlement; Immigration Research; Justice System; Canadian Overview; International; Documenting Racism |
Abstract English
This document surveys the quantitative literature pertaining to the relationship between immigration and criminality/ delinquency in the industrialised world. Specifically, the cases of Australia, Canada, the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and Continental Europe are presented. Also, entire sections are devoted to both organised crime and to the frequency of criminal behaviour as exhibited by immigrant groups. For example, the occurrence of criminality and delinquency in 1st , 2nd and 3rd generation is compared. A summary of findings is available, as is a lengthy bibliography.
Quotations
…It would be felicitous to be able to record that current evidence suggest we ought to be able to dispense with the immigrant criminal myth. However, as one reviewer put it, such popular demonologies seem able to survive any amount of exorcism (Francis 1986:149 in Yeager, p.30)