The importation and re-exportation of organized crime: explaining the rise and fall of the Jamaican posses in the United States

Williams, Carl M.; Roth, Mitchel P.

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“…Still, more than 10 years after the original offense, the man was deported based on his aggravated felony conviction, with no chance for relief. Similar trajectories were described by several participants, indicative of the historic impacts of the crack boom and the War on Drugs in New York's Afro-Caribbean communities (Contreras, 2013;Williams & Roth, 2011).…”

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Mandatory detention for criminal convictions: The reproduction of racial inequality throughU.S.immigration law

Tosh

2022

Law & Policy

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Since the late 1980s, immigrants convicted of certain criminal offenses have been subject to mandatory detention during their deportation proceedings. Due to court backlog and complicated cases, noncitizens mandatorily detained in this way can be held for years at a time, without any legal right to a bail hearing. While political rhetoric and policy aims of the past three decades have painted so-called "criminal aliens" as a highly dangerous group from whom the American public needs protecting, the criminal convictions that invoke mandatory detention and likely deportation are actually quite diverse, in large part due to the expansion of the "aggravated felony" ground of deportation to include a wide variety of less serious crimes. Drawing from 40 interviews with lawyers and other legal actors in New York City's detained immigration court from 2017 to 2018, this article explores the effects of aggravated felony-based mandatory detention. I argue that in doubly punishing immigrants who have already served time for criminal convictions, the immigration system funnels criminalized noncitizens-particularly those from poor Black and Latinx communitiestoward deportation, perpetuating inequality and upholding existing racial hierarchies. | INTRODUCTIONWith a stated focus of deterring irregular immigration and removing "criminal aliens," the United States immigration system has become increasingly punitive over the past 30 years. Today, upwards of 300,000 immigrants facing deportation are detained in the United States

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Mandatory detention for criminal convictions: The reproduction of racial inequality throughU.S.immigration law

Tosh

2022

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Jamaica: Transnationalization by Force and the Transformation of Violence

Warnecke-Berger

2018

Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean

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Crime and Violence in Jamaica: IDB Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean

Harriot¹,

Jones²

2016

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent.http://www.iadb.org 2016Heather Sutton: heathers@iadb.org i This publication was a joint collaboration between the Caribbean Economics Team (CCB/ CCB) and the Citizen Security Cluster of Institutional Capacity of the State (IFD/ICS). A special thanks to Laura Jaitman and Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa who reviewed and provided input for this report. Series Editor: Heather Sutton ii AbstractThis report is part of an IDB technical note series on crime and violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline of the crime prevention arena against which progress can be assessed. The report compiles the available data from multiple sources in order to provide a diagnosis of the size, characteristics, and changing nature of the crime problem in Jamaica over the last 10 years. In addition, the report provides a survey of the various crime prevention and suppression policies, programmes, and projects adopted by government, private organizations, and non-governmental organizations in recent years. In performing the above-mentioned tasks, the report offers an assessment of the data collection, analysis, and crime response capabilities in Jamaica, and makes suggestions regarding the most effective way forward.Key words: violence, crime, Jamaica, prevention JEL Codes: I39, Y80, J12, O54iii ..................................................................................... List of Acronyms EXECUTIVE SUMMARYCrime is now the main public safety issue for Jamaicans and a significant threat to the country's human and economic development. Data from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), public health data, and survey information show high levels of criminality and corruption on the island. Jamaica has homicide rates that are notably higher than both the regional and global averages, although since 2010 there has been a significant decline in violent crimes and indeed serious crimes in general.In 2010, there was a 7.5 per cent decline in major crimes over 2009 (from 437 to 409 per 100,000 inhabitants) and a 15 per cent decline in murder (from 62 to 5...

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The importation and re-exportation of organized crime: explaining the rise and fall of the Jamaican posses in the United States

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Mandatory detention for criminal convictions: The reproduction of racial inequality throughU.S.immigration law

Mandatory detention for criminal convictions: The reproduction of racial inequality throughU.S.immigration law

Jamaica: Transnationalization by Force and the Transformation of Violence

Crime and Violence in Jamaica: IDB Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean

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