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

• Autore: Waters Tony
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 233 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.360973
• Soggetto topico: Juvenile delinquents - United States; Teenage immigrants - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crime & immigrant youth
• ISBN: 1-322-41838-1; 0-7619-1685-7; 1-4522-6337-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779114203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II