Dangerous strangers : minority newcomers and criminal violence in the urban West, 1850-2000 /
Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By looking at a variety of gro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By looking at a variety of groups--Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, primarily--and their different experiences at varying times in the city's history, this study addresses the issue of how much violence can be attributed to new groups' treatment by the host society and how much can be traced to traits found in their community of origin. Dangerous Strangers fills an acknowledged gap in the literature of homicide studies and broadens our understanding of newcomer violence. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403980625 1403980624 1281368784 9781281368782 9781403969781 1403969787 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
