Crime and Immigrant Youth / Edition 1

by Anthony "Tony" Waters

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761916857
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/31/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FRAMING THE PROBLEM
Explaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities
Youthful Crime and Migration
The View from Criminology
Explaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities
How to Do it? How Much Is There?
PART TWO: ANSWERING THE QUESTION WHY: COMMUNITY AND STRUCTURE
Demographics and the Process of Migration
Social Cohesiveness and the Process of Migration
Status Adjustment, Socio-Economic Mobility and the Process of Migration
PART THREE: ANSWERING THE QUESTION HOW
Legal Pluralism in the Understanding of Youthful Crime
PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions
What Can Be Said about Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities?

Editorial Reviews

Examines several immigrant populations and explores why waves of youthful crime, beyond the norms of either home or host culture, emerge in some of these populations but not in others. Uses data from 100 years of US immigration records, particularly in California, to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans, and Mexicans in the late 20th century. Looks at factors including large young male populations in immigrant groups, evolution of immigrant families, the relationship between immigrant groups and host communities, and subculture norms and gangs. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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