Purpose This paper provides a historical review of developmental and life-course
criminology. Methods It uses a narrative and historical approach. Results Several turning …

Research into immigrant behaviors continues to expand as scholarship explores
mechanisms surrounding the immigrant-crime paradox. An important and underexplored …

This chapter reviews findings from the growing literature at the macro and micro levels which
reveals that, by and large, immigration and crime do not go hand and hand as commonly …

Research generally supports that immigrants engage in less crime than the native-born;
however, theory behind the immigrant-crime link has a foundation largely rooted in …

Objectives: Accumulating research finds that immigrants are less likely to offend compared
to their native-born counterparts in the United States. Less understood are the factors that …

Despite being one of the most marginalized segments in United States (US) society,
unauthorized immigrants are often believed to engage in heightened criminal activity. There …

Violence and recidivism risk assessment are key components of sentencing for juvenile
homicide offenders. Juveniles convicted of homicide face lengthy incarceration up to and …

This chapter introduces the reader to the data sources—and appropriate measures of key
concepts—available for studying immigration and crime including census data, official crime …

As scholarship continues to explore immigrant involvement in crime, immigrant-focused,
criminological inquiries at the individual-level have only begun to gather traction. While the …