REPORT ON CRIME AND THE FOREIGN BORN

Authors

Joseph Cohen, University of Michigan

Abstract

That the foreign born, more than the native born, tend to run afoul of the law, especially with respect to the more serious offenses, is a popular doctrine which critical opinion in the field of criminology has long been inclined either to qualify as to essential details or to contradict in toto. Twenty years back the Federal Immigration Commission reported that all the evidence then available indicated a lesser criminality on the part of the immigrant group as a whole. Succeeding studies have supported this conclusion. That an adverse view of the foreign born should persist in the face of presumably impartial and expert testimony is a tribute to the strength of a strongly rooted "stereotype."

Recommended Citation

Joseph Cohen, REPORT ON CRIME AND THE FOREIGN BORN, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 99 (1931).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol30/iss1/14