Crime & immigrant youth. (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Crime and immigrant youth
• Further Information: Note: By Tony Waters.
• Other Names: Waters, Tony
• Contents: 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? -- Answering the question why: community and structure. Demographics and the process of migration -- Social cohesiveness and the process of migration -- Status adjustment, socioeconomic mobility, and the process of migration -- Answering the question how. Legal pluralism and the understanding of youthful crime -- 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?
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 364.36/0973; Juvenile delinquents -- United States; Teenage immigrants -- United States; Jeunes délinquants -- États-Unis; Adolescents immigrants -- États-Unis; Juvenile delinquents; Teenage immigrants; Jeugdcriminaliteit; Etnische groepen; Immigranten; Einwanderer; Jugendkriminalität; Ausländischer Jugendlicher; Ausländischer Jugendlicher; Einwanderer; Jugendkriminalität; Adolescents immigrants - États-Unis; Jeunes délinquants - États-Unis; United States; USA; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452263373
• Related ISBNs: 145226337X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.