MIGRANT CRIME IN AUSTRALIA

Hardback. At the time of publication there were 3 million migrants in Australia, but their impact on the crime rate had neither been calculated nor discussed. This pioneering study is the only source of information on Australian migrant criminality apart from the government Dovey reports of the 1950s. Australia's early history as a penal colony and its 'current' large scale immigration scheme make an account of migrant crime especially interesting. The study outlines Australia's changing immigration program and reviews migrant crime studies overseas. The author looks at migrants in relation to the law, the police, the courts and prisons. He gives the results of studies into employment opportunities for migrant criminals and into the relationship of crime to other indicators of social deviance. He also examines the idea of culture conflict, giving crime rate differences between first and second generation migrants and the Australian-born. In addition to the empirically tested ideas, there is a chapter on untested theories about the possible origins of migrant crime. Forty tables of basic data are found in the Appendix and there is a detailed Bibliog. Source material includes published official figures, especially culled official data, reports on surveys conducted by the author and reports of experimental studies. List of Tables and Figures, Summary and Conclusions, Appendices, Bibliog., Cases and Index. 217pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in sl. faded vg+ dw.