Immigration law enforcement study highlighted by journalism website

Journalist's Resource, an open-access website that showcases and explains scholarly reports for reporters, educators and students, added a journal article from ASU professors Paul Lewis, Doris Provine and Scott Decker and Monica Weiler Varsanyi, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, SUNY. 

Their article, "Why Do (Some) City Police Departments Enforce Federal Immigration Law?," was published last month in the Journal of Public Administration Research. Lewis, Provine, Decker and Varsanyi examined how politics, demographics, and organizational influences helped determine whether local police agencies enforced federal immigration law.

Journalist's Resource is an open-access project designed to condense and succinctly present quality information from authoritative sources on topics of public interest. The project is a collaberation of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Havard University's Kennedy School, the Carnegie Corporation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.