This report presents findings from a survey of Latinos regarding their perceptions of law
enforcement authorities in light of the greater involvement of police in immigration …

Purpose–Recent years have witnessed a national policy shift towards involving state and
local police in enforcing US federal immigration laws. Critics argue that involving local police …

Using data from a survey of 2004 Latinos in four urban counties in the USA, this paper
considers a question that has not been systematically investigated: how has increasing …

The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches
beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the US-born …

The lack of research on Latinos/as and Latino groups is arguably one of the most serious
limitations in the development of criminological research on the sources of racial and ethnic …

Police departments rely on residents to report crime in order to help keep communities safe.
Research suggests that attitudes toward the police are influenced by race and ethnicity; …

This study examined the relationship between the fear of deportation and perceptions of law
enforcement, the criminal justice system, and the willingness to report crimes among Latinos …

Objectives Because of the merging of immigration control and criminal justice, or
“crimmigration,” state and local police increasingly drive interior immigration enforcement …

Though much attention has been given to the effect of ethnicity on perceptions of the police,
few studies had focused on Latino immigrants. Using research conducted in an immigrant …

Many studies that link immigration and crime focus on assessing rates and explaining
incidence. In this article we attempt to elucidate the immigrants' fear of crime and their …