Opinion: Laken Riley’s killing does reflect a broader danger. But it isn’t ‘immigrant crime’
Opinion: Laken Riley’s killing does reflect a broader danger. But it isn’t ‘immigrant crime’
- April 1, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law and society, and Sarah Shannon explain in this piece for the Los Angeles Times (also ran in MSN), April 1, 2024
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Charis E. Kubrin, UCI professor of criminology, law and society and Sarah Shannon write, “Laken Riley’s killing should remind us of the ways that violence against women is downplayed, tolerated and even facilitated in America. Misusing this crime to demonize immigrants, capitalize on misguided fears, call for reactionary policies based on flawed beliefs and gain votes in an election year is one more way of diminishing and distracting from the problem it actually represents.”
Continue reading: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-01/laken-riley-university-of-georgia-crime-violence-murder-immigration-violence-women
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