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dc.contributor.authorKaladelfos, Andy
dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:03:49Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:03:49Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0004-9522
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ajph.12425
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/379778
dc.description.abstractThe relationship between immigration and crime rates has long been a topic of robust debate in criminology and sociology, especially for scholars of the United States. Researchers in those fields have highlighted divergent factors to explain high arrest rates including the presence of ethnic gangs, media reporting, racial profiling, over‐policing of immigrant communities, and wider issues of social dislocation brought about by migration. By contrast, historians have given little consideration to the topic. This lack of historical investigation is particularly curious in studies of Australia's post‐war immigration given the political importance of the issue at the time. Immigration and criminality — or more precisely, whether immigrants committed more crime or worse crimes than the Australian‐born population — became a prominent topic of media coverage and political interest in the early 1950s. In fact, the question of migrants’ criminality was so important that it was the subject of the first research inquiries ever ordered by the Department of Immigration. Our article examines this research, explaining the impetus for the inquiries, their findings, and their historical significance. We conclude by outlining how this topic can illuminate new areas of inquiry in immigration history.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom48
dc.relation.ispartofpageto64
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Politics and History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume64
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430399
dc.titleImmigration and Criminality: Australia's Post-War Inquiries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFinnane, Mark J.


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