Guerette 978-1-59332-150-5


	Edited by Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III

		Migrant Death: Border Safety and Situational Crime Prevention on the U.S.-Mexico Divide
		Rob T. Guerette

			Guerette studies migrant deaths along the U.S. and Mexico border and the role of the U.S. Border Patrol in responding to them. He explores the limitations of trying to prevent migrant deaths through the reversal of U.S. immigration policy and the relaxing of border security. Using a Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) framework, Guerette examines the nature and circumstance of border deaths and offers several pragmatic ways of preventing future deaths through proactive life saving measures. This effort not only identifies the need to manage this emerging facet of migration but also because it applies a method largely used to prevent conventional crimes to this transnational issue.

		Rob T. Guerette is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Florida International University, Miami. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His research has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Security Journal, Crime Prevention Studies, and the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. He is co-editor of the book Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism (Ashgate Publishing, 2006).

		xiv, 180 pages. Index, bibliography. ISBN 978-1-59332-150-5 (casebound). $60. Published 2007.