The relationship between criminality and immigration is too easily reduced to the criminality or otherwise of individual immigrants or the victimization of immigrants by individual offenders. In contrast, the available information overwhelmingly indicates what might be termed institutionalized crimes against marginalized or excluded groups that are often victimized and criminalized collectively. However, most criminologists and victimologists still focus on what the criminal justice system does to the individual offender or on the fate of the individual victim. Nevertheless, the data indicate the immigrant is the typical criminalized person rather than the typical criminal. The immigrant is also the model of the innocent being victimized as a member of a demonized category and not a typical example of the individual offender being punished. 70 references (Author abstract modified)