Publication Cover
Sociological Spectrum
Mid-South Sociological Association
Volume 31, 2011 - Issue 6
1,325
Views
34
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

IMMIGRATION, SCHOOLS, AND VIOLENCE: ASSIMILATION AND STUDENT MISBEHAVIOR

Pages 695-717 | Published online: 06 Oct 2011

REFERENCES

  • Alba , Richard and Victor Nee . 2003 . Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration . Boston : Harvard University Press .
  • Booth , Jeb A. , Amy Farrell , and Sean P. Varano . 2008. “Social Control, Serious Delinquency, and Risky Behavior: A Gendered Analysis.” Crime & Delinquency 54(3):423–456.
  • Brunson , Rod K. and Jody Miller . 2009 . “Schools, Neighborhoods, and Adolescent Conflicts: A Situational Examination of Reciprocal Dynamics.” Justice Quarterly 26 : 183 – 210 .
  • Chavez , Leo R. 2008 . The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation . Stanford , CA : Stanford University Press .
  • Chiswick , Barry R. and Paul W. Miller . 2005 . “Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?” City and Community 4 : 5 – 35 .
  • Desmond , Scott and Charis E. Kubrin . 2009 . “The Power of Place: Immigrant Communities and Adolescent Violence.” Sociological Quarterly 50 : 581 – 607 .
  • Eitle , David J. and Tamela McNulty Eitle . 2003 . “Segregation and School Violence.” Social Forces 82 : 589 – 615 .
  • Ewert , Stephanie. 2009 . “Student Misbehavior during Senior Year: A Comparison of Immigrants and the Native-Born.” Social Science Research 38 : 826 – 839 .
  • Feliciano , Cynthia and Rubén Rumbaut . 2005 . “Gendered Paths: Educational and Occupational Expectations and Outcomes among Adult Children of Immigrants.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 ( 6 ): 1087 – 1118 .
  • Gans , Herbert J. 1992 . “Second-Generation Decline: Scenarios for the Economic and Ethnic Futures of the Post-1965 American Immigrants.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 15 ( 2 ): 173 – 192 .
  • Gordon , Milton M. 1964 . Assimilation in American Life . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Gottfredson , Denise C. 2001 . Schools and Delinquency . New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Greenman , Emily and Yu Xie . 2009 . “Is Assimilation Theory Dead? The Effect of Assimilation on Adolescent Well-Being.” Social Science Research 37 : 109 – 137 .
  • Hagan , John , Paul Hirschfield , and Carla Shedd . 2002 . “First and Last Words: Apprehending the Social and Legal Facts of an Urban High School Shooting.” Sociological Methods Research 31 : 218 – 254 .
  • Hagan , John , Ron Levi , and Ronit Dinovitzer . 2008 . “The Symbolic Violence of the Crime-Immigration Nexus.” Criminology & Public Policy 7 : 95 – 112 .
  • Harris , Kathleen Mullan . 1999 . “The Health Status and Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Immigrant Families.” Pp. 286 – 347 in Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance , edited by D. Hernandez. Washington , DC : National Academy Press .
  • Kao , Grace and Marta Tienda . 1995 . “Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth.” Social Science Quarterly 76 : 1 – 19 .
  • Kozol , Jonathan . 1991 . Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools . New York : Crown .
  • ——— . 2005 . The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America . New York : Three Rivers Press .
  • Lee , Stacey . 2005 . Up against Whiteness: Race, School and Immigrant Youth . New York : Teachers College Press .
  • Martínez , Jr. , Ramiro. 2006. “Coming to America: The Impact of the New Immigration on Crime.” Pp. 1–21 in Coming to America: Immigration Ethnicity, and Crime , edited by Ramiro Martínez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela . New York : New York University Press.
  • Martínez , Jr. , Ramiro , Matthew T. Lee , and A. L. Nielsen . 2004 . “Segmented Assimilation, Local Context and Determinants of Drug Violence in Miami and San Diego: Does Ethnicity and Immigration Matter?” International Migration Review 38 ( 1 ): 131 – 157 .
  • Martínez , Jr. , Ramiro, Richard R. Rosenfeld , and Dennis Mares . 2008 . “The Impact of Drug Market Activity on Violent Crime.” Urban Affairs Review 43 : 846 – 874 .
  • Mateu-Gelabert , Pedro . 2000 . School Violence: The Bi-Directional Conflict Flow between Neighborhood and School . New York : Vera Institute of Justice .
  • Mateu-Gelabert , Pedro and Howard Lune . 2007 . “Street Codes in High School: School as an Educational Deterrent.” City & Community 6 : 173 – 191 .
  • Morenoff , Jeffrey and Avi Astor . 2006 . “Immigrant Assimilation and Crime: Generational Differences in Youth Violence in Chicago.” Pp. 36 – 63 in Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence , edited by Ramiro Martínez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela . New York : New York University Press .
  • National Center for Education Statistics . 2004 . Educational Longitudinal Study: 2002 Base Year Data File User's Manual . Washington , DC : Author .
  • Nielsen , Amie , Matthew T. Lee , and Ramiro Martínez Jr. 2005 . “Integrating Race, Place, and Motive in Social Disorganization Theory: Lessons from a Comparison of Black and Latino Homicide Types in Two Immigrant Destination Cities.” Criminology 43 ( 3 ): 837 – 872 .
  • Olsen , Laurie. 2008 . Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools . New York : The New Press .
  • Park , Robert E. 1950 . Race and Culture . Glencoe , IL : The Free Press .
  • Peguero , Anthony A. 2009 . “Victimizing the Children of Immigrants: Latino and Asian American Student Victimization.” Youth & Society 41 ( 2 ): 186 – 208 .
  • Portes , Alejandro and Rubén Rumbaut . 2001 . Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation . Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • ——— . 2006 . Immigrant America: A Portrait . Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Raudenbush , Stephen W. , Anthony S. Bryk , and Richard T. Congdon . 2004 . Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling, Version 6 . Lincolnwood , IL : Scientific Software International .
  • Rios , Victor M. 2011 . Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys . New York : New York University Press .
  • Rong , Xue L. and Judith Preissle . 2008 . Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century: What We Need to Know to Meet the Challenge . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage-Corwin .
  • Rumbaut , Rubén G. 1997 . “Assimilation and Its Discontents: Between Rhetoric and Reality.” International Migration Review 31 : 923 – 960 .
  • ——— . 2005 . “Turning Points in the Transition to Adulthood: Determinants of Educational Attainment, Incarceration, and Early Childbearing among Children of Immigrants.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 ( 6 ): 1041 – 1086 .
  • Rumbaut , Rubén G. and Walter A. Ewing . 2007. “The Myth of Immigrant Criminality.” Retrieved from http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Rumbault_Ewing/index.html
  • Sampson , Robert J. 2008 . “Rethinking Crime and Immigration.” Contexts 7 ( 1 ): 28 – 33 .
  • Sampson , Robert J. and Stephen W. Raudenbush . 1999 . “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods.” American Journal of Sociology 105 ( 3 ): 603 – 651 .
  • Schreck , Christopher J. , J. Mitchell Miller , and Chris L. Gibson . 2003 . “Trouble in the School Yard: A Study of the Risk Factors of Victimization at School.” Crime and Delinquency 49 : 460 – 484 .
  • Shaw , Clifford R. and Henry D. McKay . 1969 . Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Stewart , Eric. 2003 . “School Social Bonds, School Climate, and School Misbehavior: A Multilevel Analysis.” Justice Quarterly 20 : 575 – 613 .
  • Suárez-Orozco , Carola and Marcello Suárez-Orozco . 2001 . Children of Immigration . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • U. S. Census Bureau. 2008 . Current Population Survey . Washington , DC : U. S. Census Bureau, Population Division .
  • Valenzuela , Angela. 1999 . Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring . Albany : State University of New York Press .
  • Verdugo , Richard. 1999 . “Safe Schools: Theory, Data, and Practices.” Education and Urban Society 31 ( 3 ): 267 – 274 .
  • Welsh , Wayne. 2001 . “Effects of Student and School Factors on Five Measures of School Disorder.” Justice Quarterly 18 : 911 – 948 .
  • Welsh , Wayne , J. R. Greene , and Patricia Jenkins . 1999 . “School Disorder: The Influence of Individual, Institutional, and Community Factors.” Criminology 37 : 601 – 643 .
  • Wilcox , Pamela , Michelle Campbell Augustine , and Richard R. Clayton . 2006 . “Physical Environment and Crime: An Analysis across Kentucky Schools.” Journal of Primary Prevention 27 : 295 – 315 .
  • Zhou , Min. 1997 . “Growing up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants.” Annual Review of Sociology 23 : 63 – 95 .
  • Zhou , Min and Carl L. Bankston III . 1998 . Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States . New York : Russell Sage Foundation .
  • ——— . 2006 . “Delinquency and Acculturation in the Twenty-First Century: A Decade's Change in a Vietnamese American Community.” Pp. 117 – 139 in Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence , edited by Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela . New York : New York University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.