Studies of the New Immigration

Stephanie M. DiPietro and Robert J. Bursik

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2012, vol. 641, issue 1, 247-267

Abstract: After a prolonged period during which studies of immigration and crime virtually disappeared from the literature, the topic has reemerged as a central theme of contemporary criminology. However, unlike the classic immigration studies that appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, most modern studies combine the various countries of origin into broad pan-ethnic groupings (such as Hispanic/Latino or Asian) that implicitly assume that criminological dynamics are relatively homogeneous within these aggregations despite the important social, cultural, and historical differences that are subsumed. This article utilizes data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study to illustrate the systematic within-category variation that such approaches can mask.

Keywords: ethnicity; immigration; delinquency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716211431687

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