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Autore |
Waters Tony |
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Titolo |
Crime & immigrant youth [[electronic resource] /] / by Tony Waters |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-322-41838-1 |
0-7619-1685-7 |
1-4522-6337-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 233 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Juvenile delinquents - United States |
Teenage immigrants - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Framing the Problem; Chapter 1 - Explaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities; Chapter 2 - Youthful Crime and Migration: The View From Criminology; Chapter 3 - Explaining Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities: How to do it? How Much is There?; Part II - Answering the Question Why: Community and Structure; Chapter 4 - Demographics and the Process of Migration; Chapter 5 - Social Cohesiveness and the Process of Migration; Chapter 6 - Status Adjustment, Socioeconomic Mobility, and the Process of Migration |
Part III - Answering the Question HowChapter 7 - Legal Pluralism and the Understanding of Youthful Crime; Part IV - Conclusions; Chapter 8 - What Can be Said about Youthful Crime in Immigrant Communities?; Appendix A. The Case of the Migrating Bushtit; Appendix B. Modern Bureaucratized Man Abroad: The Legal Epistemology of Stung Ducks; Appendix C. A Long Hot Summer in the Polk Street Apartments; Appendix D. The Baseball Bat Case: An Overzealous Prosecution or the Yankees at Bat?; References; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Crime and Immigrant Youth is a study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. |
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