Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that was created long before his election. Deportation numbers have actually been on the rise since 1996, when two federal statutes sought to delegate a portion of the responsibilities for immigration enforcement to local authorities. Policing Immigrants traces the transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system of local policing that extends throughout the country’s interior. Since federal authorities set local law enforcement to the task of bringing suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government’s attention, local responses have varied. While some localities have resisted the work, others have aggressively sought out unauthorized immigrants, often seeking to further their own objectives by putting their own stamp on immigration policing. Tellingly, how a community responds can best be predicted not by conditions like crime rates or the state of the local economy but rather by the level of conservatism among local voters. What has resulted, the authors argue, is a system that is neither just nor effective—one that threatens the core crime-fighting mission of policing by promoting racial profiling, creating fear in immigrant communities, and undermining the critical community-based function of local policing.

Politics & Social Sciences

Lewis, Paul G.

Decker, Scott H.

Provine, Doris Marie

Varsanyi, Monica W.

Sociology

University of Chicago Press

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that was created long before his election. Deportation numbers have actually been on the rise since 1996, when two federal statutes sought to delegate a portion of the responsibilities for immigration enforcement to local authorities. Policing Immigrants traces the transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system of local policing that extends throughout the country’s interior. Since federal authorities set local law enforcement to the task of bringing suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government’s attention, local responses have varied. While some localities have resisted the work, others have aggressively sought out unauthorized immigrants, often seeking to further their own objectives by putting their own stamp on immigration policing. Tellingly, how a community responds can best be predicted not by conditions like crime rates or the state of the local economy but rather by the level of conservatism among local voters. What has resulted, the authors argue, is a system that is neither just nor effective—one that threatens the core crime-fighting mission of policing by promoting racial profiling, creating fear in immigrant communities, and undermining the critical community-based function of local policing.

Social Sciences

Paying particularly close attention to the provisional party organization and to the party secretaries who direct its activities, this book examines the changing position and role of the Polish United Workers' Party and its apparatus between 1975 and 1986. The role of the party secretaries and the way they perform is seen as a major determinant of the nature of party leadership and of the strength of political authority in communist states. The author argues that the protracted crisis of the Polish system reflects less the weakness of communist party power than critical problems encountered in accumulating and exercising authority. The crisis of 1980 was as much due to inadequate political strategies as to the economic failings of the Gierek regime.

Political Authority and Party Secretaries in Poland, 1975–1986 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 63)

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

Paying particularly close attention to the provisional party organization and to the party secretaries who direct its activities, this book examines the changing position and role of the Polish United Workers' Party and its apparatus between 1975 and 1986.  The role of the party secretaries and the way they perform is seen as a major determinant of the nature of party leadership and of the strength of political authority in communist states.  The author argues that the protracted crisis of the Polish system reflects less the weakness of communist party power than critical problems encountered in accumulating and exercising authority.  The crisis of 1980 was as much due to inadequate political strategies as to the economic failings of the Gierek regime.

This is an account of the installation, development, operation and eventual downfall of the postwar communist regimes in Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and the challenges faced by their successors. It discusses political, economic, social and cultural changes and emphasizes the crucial relationships with the USSR throughout.

Central Europe Since 1945 (The Postwar World)

History

Europe

Longman Publishing Group

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

"Paul Lewis ... makes a compelling theoretical argument that institutional choices have important social and economic consequences". Carl Abbott, Portland State University

Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs. But not all suburbs are alike. In Shaping Suburbia, Paul Lewis argues that a fundamental political logic underlies the patterns of suburban growth and states that the key to understanding suburbia is to understand the local governments that control it - their number, functions, and power. Using innovative models and data analyses, Lewis shows that the relative political fragmentation of a metropolitan area plays a key part in shaping its suburbs.

Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development (Pitt series in policy and institutional studies)

University of Pittsburgh Press

Poland: Politics, Economics and Society (Marxist Regimes Series)

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Kolankiewicz, George

UNKNO

Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of international attention since the Soviet collapse. An understanding of its postwar history is critical to an appreciation of the challenges facing its present rulers. This is an engrossing account of the installation, development, operation and eventual downfall of its (very different) communist regimes, and the transition to the freedoms and uncertainties of the post-Soviet world. The book covers political, economic, social and cultural change, emphasising the crucial relationships with the USSR throughout.

Routledge

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Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

Political Authority and Party Secretaries in Poland, 1975–1986 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 63)

Political Authority and Party Secretaries in Poland, 1975–1986 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 63)

Central Europe Since 1945 (The Postwar World)

Central Europe Since 1945 (The Postwar World)

Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development (Pitt series in policy and institutional studies)

Poland: Politics, Economics and Society (Marxist Regimes Series)

Central Europe Since 1945 (The Postwar World)