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PublisherSAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100761916857

ISBN-139780761916857

eBay Product ID (ePID)580671

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameCrime and Immigrant Youth

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEmigration & Immigration, Criminology

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorAnthony "Tony" Waters

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN98-019775

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal364.36

Table Of ContentPART ONE: FRAMING THE PROBLEMExplaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant CommunitiesYouthful Crime and Migration The View from CriminologyExplaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities How to Do it? How Much Is There?PART TWO: ANSWERING THE QUESTION WHY: COMMUNITY AND STRUCTUREDemographics and the Process of MigrationSocial Cohesiveness and the Process of MigrationStatus Adjustment, Socio-Economic Mobility and the Process of MigrationPART THREE: ANSWERING THE QUESTION HOWLegal Pluralism in the Understanding of Youthful CrimePART FOUR: CONCLUSIONSConclusions What Can Be Said about Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities?

SynopsisThis is a study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Waters uses data from 100 years of US immigration records to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century., A study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime. Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of US immigration records to examine immigrant groups as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molkan Russians in the early years of the century., This interesting and accessible volume examines several immigrant populations and explores why waves of youthful crime emerge in some of those populations but not in others. Author Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of Unites States immigration records (particularly in California) to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans, and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molokan Russians in the early 20th century. Crime and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Water concludes that when an immigrant group has a large population of young males (and not all immigrant groups do), it creates the potential for patterned misunderstandings between immigrant parents and their children. This situation, in turn, provides conditions for a predictable outbreak of crime within deviant subcultures (i.e. gangs), as shown in numerous case examples. Waters also explains how youthful immigrant crime often erupts because of the structural relationships between immigrant groups and the host community rather than the cultural differences imported from abroad., Crime and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of United States immigration records to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molkan Russians in the early years of the century. The study reveals the sequential consequences of a high proportion of young males in an immigrant group: patterned misunderstanding between parents and children; deviant subcultures such as gangs; structural rather than cultural differences with the host community. Tony Waters also devotes a large part of this study to show where and why crime does not develop on account of a large presence of immigrant youth.

LC Classification NumberHV9104.W423 1998