Chapter 3 Immigrant Assimilation and Crime: Generational Differences in Youth Violence in Chicago

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1 Coming to America: The Impact of the New Immigration on Crime 1
5. Chapter 2 Rethinking the Chicago School of Criminology: A New Era of Immigration 20
6. Chapter 3 Immigrant Assimilation and Crime: Generational Differences in Youth Violence in Chicago 36
7. Chapter 4 Immigration and Incarceration: Patterns and Predictors of Imprisonment among First- and Second-Generation Young Adults 64
8. Chapter 5 Immigration and Asian Homicide Patterns in Urban and Suburban San Diego 90
9. Chapter 6 Delinquency and Acculturation in the Twenty-first Century: A Decade’s Change in a Vietnamese American Community 117
10. Chapter 7 Beyond Conflict and Controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in Urban America 140
11. Chapter 8 The “War on the Border” Criminalizing Immigrants and Militarizing the U.S.-Mexico Border 164
12. Chapter 9 New Immigrants and Day Labor: The Potential for Violence 189
13. Chapter 10 Multiple Disadvantages and Crime among Black Immigrants: Exploring Haitian Violence in Miami’s Communities 212
14. About the Contributors 235
15. Index 237