LatCrit and criminology: Toward a theoretical understanding of Latino/a/x crime and criminal legal system involvement

MB Vélez, AA Peguero - Annual Review of Criminology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
An important body of work documents how race matters for the patterning of crime and
criminal legal system involvement largely by focusing on comparisons between Blacks and …

The psychology of critical consciousness among immigrants: Reflection and activism responding to oppressive immigration policy

GA Cadenas, L Campos, L Minero - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
The psychological construct of critical consciousness refers to engaging in analyses of
systems of oppression and in collective action to change these conditions. This article …

Immigration enforcement, the racialization of legal status, and perceptions of the police: Latinos in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Phoenix in comparative …

C Menjívar, WP Simmons, D Alvord… - Du Bois Review: Social …, 2018 - cambridge.org
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 …

Anti-immigration policies and fear of deportation: A human rights issue

D Becerra - Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2016 - Springer
This paper examines how recent immigration policies and immigration enforcement
strategies have impacted Latino immigrants in Arizona. Data were drawn from a sample of …

Immigration enforcement awareness and community engagement with police: Evidence from domestic violence calls in Los Angeles

AN Muchow, C Amuedo-Dorantes - Journal of urban economics, 2020 - Elsevier
The unwillingness of Latino and immigrant communities to interact with police or report
crime is a recognized concern of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Using data on …

Policing immigrants or policing immigration? Understanding local law enforcement participation in immigration control

A Armenta, I Alvarez - Sociology Compass, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract As the United States has expanded its immigration control strategies, police
participation in immigration enforcement has increased in scope and intensity. Local law …

Human rights–based social work practice with immigrants and asylum seekers in a legal service organization

D Androff, C Mathis - Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2022 - Springer
The human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers are threatened by the erosion of
asylum and a system of crimmigration that combines immigration and criminal law. This …

COVID-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence: an analysis of help-seeking messages in the Spanish-speaking media

LR Alvarez-Hernandez, I Cardenas, A Bloom - Journal of family violence, 2022 - Springer
The role of the Spanish-speaking media is crucial for how Latinx communities learn about
seeking help when experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). This study investigated the …

Beyond the fear of deportation: Understanding unauthorized immigrants' ambivalence toward the police

A Armenta, R Rosales - American Behavioral Scientist, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article draws on in-depth interviews and ethnography to examine unauthorized
Mexican immigrants' perceptions of and experiences with police in Los Angeles and …

Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization

JR Logan, D Oakley - Journal of urban affairs, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT President Lyndon Johnson's appointment of the National Advisory Commission
on Civil Disorder (Kerner Commission) followed a series of inner-city riots in the 1960s. The …