A Game of Catch-Up? The Offending Experience of Second-Generation Immigrants

• Published in: Crime and delinquency Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 60 - 84
• Main Author: Bersani, Bianca E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2014; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Assimilation; Children; Children & youth; Crime; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Immigrants; Immigration; Neighborhoods; Neighbourhoods; Noncitizens; Peers; Racial Differences; Regression analysis; Socialization; U.S.A; Variables; Whites; Youth; United States > US; immigration; crime; second generation; assimilation

Evidence continues to accumulate documenting a generational disparity in offending whereby second-generation immigrants (the children of immigrants) evidence a precipitous increase in offending compared with their first-generation, foreign-born peers. An understanding of this pattern is most often c...