Migrants and Metropolis: Criminological Aspect

The article examines criminological aspects of migration processes undergoing in the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan. The features of conflictological opportunities among citizens of Nur-Sultan in the context of immigration and crime are analyzed. The study revealed social anxiety associated with the flow of migrantsas well assome criminological features of immigration crime. The article offers a description of immigration crime based onBeck’s theory of the “risk society”. Riskminimization should become the core of the immigration crime prevention system.

Travels of Italian Positive School around the racialization of immigration-crime nexus

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) had a significant demographic growth due to the strong weight of the migratory component. This article focuses on describing the theoretical frameworks deployed by criminologists and related experts to “racialize” the links between immigration and crime in Archivos de Criminología, Medicina Legal, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Afines, a journal published between 1902 and 1913. In so doing, and inspired by the Southern criminology proposals and reflections, I propose to analyze the criminological travels related to the Italian Positive School, to detail the grounds the thematic links between immigration and crime were based on and, in turn, to empirically illustrate different arguments around criminology as a Northern discipline.

Disentangling Differences in Homicide Incarceration Rates by Immigration Status: A Comparison in Texas

Research addressing the purported relationship between immigration and crime remains popular, but some gaps remain under-explored. One important gap involves disentangling differences in crime and punishment by immigrant status, as measured across different definitions of immigration status and in relation to U.S. natives, at the individual level. Using data from Texas, results show that native-born U.S. citizens are incarcerated for homicide at higher rates than almost all immigrant groups. While the incarceration rate for undocumented immigrants was 24% greater than the rate for all foreign-citizens, this rate was significantly less than that for U.S. citizens. Among the immigrant status classifications available in this study, all were associated with lower incarceration rates for homicide than that of U.S. citizens.