Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century America.

The major government commissions on immigration and crime in the early twentieth century relied on evidence that suffered from aggregation bias and the absence of accurate population data, which led them to present partial and sometimes misleading views of the immigrant-native criminality comparison...

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Published in:	Demography Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 739 - 764
Main Authors:	Moehling, Carolyn, Piehl, Anne Morrison
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. November 2009
Subjects:	United States history History of crime Crime Immigrants Imprisonment History History of immigrants United States
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