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immigrant victims  

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  • Historically, scholars have paid relatively little attention to the criminal victimization of immigrants. Immigration scholars have focused on assimilation, or immigrant incorporation into society in ways that mostly ignored crime; criminology emphasizes immigrants as perpetrators through theories of how subcultures and cultural conflict lead to street crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Victims, Immigrant]

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