Title:	Birthplace, Migration and Crime
Authors:	Ronald D. Francis
Keywords:	Birthplace
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This work follows on from an earlier monograph by this author some decades ago. Since the publication of that early work the situation has changed so much that this present work must certainly be seen as a new one rather than a revision. Among those items are the impact of climate change and its implications for resettlement from environmentally hostile lands, the emergence of powerful forces for the moral treatment of migrants and refugees and the occasional hardline governmental policies that govern immigration intake. Additionally the coverage now needs to be extended to accommodate such issues as victimology, policy and moral issues in migration. In particular this work deals explicitly with crime-related issues, using the conventional statistical framework, with some explanations that might be invoked to account for various phenomena. It should be made plain that the book is about crime and birthplace. What this book is not about is organised crime, nor is it about crime and the indigenous population. This present account gives the historical context, policy matters, information about police, prisons, and courts, mental health, and crime, and provides some methodological and moral expositions. In summary one might hold that migration issues are one of the besetting social issues of our time: they cause political chaos, social upheaval and raise some fundamental moral questions. Studies of migration are usually concerned with the consequences to the host country, but consideration might also be given to the effect upon the countries from which migrants depart. In recent times in Australia we have seen much of the stereotypes of alien-looking men running the drug trade; of gangs of men from Asia engaging in territorial fights; of violent Europeans murdering their compatriots, natives, Family Court judges and anyone else who happens to get in the way of their unfettered desires. An objective examination of these stereotypes shows them to be mostly ill-founded. The main target readers here are those with an interest in migration studies, legislation and senior migration administration. The work is written within a frame of reference such that it may also have some appeal to the interested public. The study is not one on law – although there is a section that addresses that topic – nor is it an exhaustive account of published material. It is, rather, a selection of examples highlighting important contributions, and is oriented toward issues. It is seen of particular value that this work provides population data on prisons, offences and birthplace. This work seeks to outline both the historical and the contemporary issues of migration into Australia, and to give, in effect, an account that represents a contextual account of a nation that was founded for immigrant criminals.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52622
ISBN:	978-1-137-38648-9
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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