NisbettRichardCohenDov. Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (Westview, 1996). A fascinating take on the cultural roots of violence in the United States, including the culture of honor posited to afflict the South disproportionately and traced to European immigration.
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PressEyal. “Do Immigrants Make Us Safer?”New York Times Magazine December 3, 2006. A New York Times writer considers the questions raised in this article, taking to the streets of Chicago.
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RumbautRubén G.EwingWalter A.. “The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men,” (Immigration Policy Center, 2007). A recent synthesis of the empirical facts on immigration and crime, with a special focus on incarceration.
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SellinThorsten. Culture Conflict and Crime (Social Science Research Council, 1938). Widely considered the classical account of immigration, culture, and crime in the early part of the 20th century.
