Prior research investigates whether immigrants commit more crimes than native-born
people. Yet the central policy used to regulate immigration—detention and deportation—has …

Crimmigration, or the intertwining of criminal and immigration law, allows whether explicitly
or implicitly for local law enforcement and increasingly other government agencies, to act as …

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

The policy of" immigration federalism" has justified granting state and local police officers
greatly increased responsibilities for enforcing immigration laws. It is designed to amplify …

Abstract Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has rolled out a series of programs
that leverage local and state resources to detain and deport undocumented immigrants …

Contrary to popular opinion, scholarly research has documented that immigrant
communities are some of the safest places around. Studies repeatedly find that …

This address has a twofold purpose. First, as the first African American to serve as president
of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), I celebrate the contributions of scholars of …

The 287 (g) program enables local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration
laws. We examine 287 (g)'s implementation across multiple counties in North Carolina and …

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers—the requests from ICE to a state
or local law enforcement agency to hold someone until the person can be taken into …

This book investigates the strategic use of America's historical crime control,
counterterrorism, national security and immigration policies as a mechanism in the modern …