Race, Immigration, and Social Control Immigrants' Views on the Police /

• Main Authors: Sun, Ivan Y. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wu, Yuning (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Police.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Ethnicity.; Emigration and immigration.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Policing.; Crime and Society.; Ethnicity Studies.; Migration.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book discusses the issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and immigrant status in U.S. policing, with a special focus on immigrant groups' perceptions of the police and factors that shape their attitudes toward the police. It focuses on the perceptions of three rapidly growing yet understudie...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Race/ethnicity as the Defining Characteristic of Policing in the U.S.
• Chapter 3. Policing the Country's Newcomers
• Chapter 4. The Apparent Immigrants: Latinos' Attitudes toward the Police
• Chapter 5. Model Minorities and Forever Foreigners: Chinese Americans' Attitudes toward the Police
• Chapter 6. From Invisibility to Unwanted Spotlight: Arab Americans' Perceptions of the Police
• Chapter 7. More than Blacks and Whites: Theory Development on Immigrant Perceptions of the Police
• Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusion.