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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779114203321

Autore

Waters Tony

Titolo

Crime & immigrant youth [[electronic resource] /] / by Tony Waters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1999

ISBN

1-322-41838-1

0-7619-1685-7

1-4522-6337-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 233 p.)

Disciplina

364.360973

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquents - United States

Teenage immigrants - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.