Crime and Immigrant Youth [Paperback]

Tony Waters (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0761916857 | ISBN-13: 978-0761916857 | Publication Date: March 31, 1999 | Edition: 1

Crime and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of United States immigration records to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molkan Russians in the early years of the century. The study reveals the sequential consequences of a high proportion of young males in an immigrant group: patterned misunderstanding between parents and children; deviant subcultures such as gangs; structural rather than cultural differences with the host community. Tony Waters also devotes a large part of this study to show where and why crime does not develop on account of a large presence of immigrant youth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761916857
• ISBN-13: 978-0761916857
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,638,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tony Waters has been a Professor in the Department of Sociology, California State University, Chico, since 1996. He has also been a Guest Professor at The University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, and Zeppelin University in Germany. Prior to beginning his career in academia, he was in a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, and worked with refugee relief programs in Thailand and Tanzania. He lives in Auburn, California, with is wife Dagmar Waters. They have two children who attend college in Minnesota.