Race, Immigration, and Social Control

Ivan Y. Sun is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at University of Delaware, USA. His research interests include police attitudes and behavior, public evaluations of criminal justice, and crime and justice in Asian societies. He has published three books and more than 80 refereed journal articles.Yuning Wu is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University, USA. Her research interests include citizen perceptions of criminal justice, police behavior and attitudes, victimization and fear of crime. She has published over 50 refereed journal articles in these areas.

“Sun and Wu’s book presents some guidelines for academic researchers to investigate immigrants’ perceptions of the police. This book can also be useful to those who teach undergraduate or graduate policing classes where the instructor wants to discuss various challenges of the American police and critical thinking about the police-community relations in multicultural society.” (Jaeyong Choi, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)“Sun (Univ. of Delaware) and Wu (Wayne State) focus on Latino, Chinese, and Arab immigrants’ perceptions of police in the US and the various factors that shape their views. They provide a summary of research available on the topic and report on their own scholarly work. … Given the rise of xenophobia in the US and increased use of local police to enforce immigration laws, this is a timely book. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (M. Escobar, Choice, Vol. 56 (03), 2018)​

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Race/ethnicity as the Defining Characteristic of Policing in the U.S..- Chapter 3. Policing the Country’s Newcomers.- Chapter 4. The Apparent Immigrants: Latinos’ Attitudes toward the Police.- Chapter 5. Model Minorities and Forever Foreigners: Chinese Americans’ Attitudes toward the Police.- Chapter 6. From Invisibility to Unwanted Spotlight: Arab Americans’ Perceptions of the Police.- Chapter 7. More than Blacks and Whites: Theory Development on Immigrant Perceptions of the Police.- Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusion.