Specifying General Strain Theory: An Ethnically Relevant Approach

Pérez, Deanna M.; Jennings, Wesley G.; Gover, Angela R.

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“…Specifically, in schools with greater percentages of students with limited English proficiency, school crime was significantly less. This result is largely consistent with the literature on acculturation, indicating that crime is lower among individuals who are less acculturated (Pérez, Jennings, & Gover, 2008). Aggregated to the school level, these results indicate that schools that have greater percentages of less-acculturated students have a lower incidence of crime.…”

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On the Association Between SROs, Private Security Guards, Use-of-Force Capabilities, and Violent Crime in Schools

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Lanterman

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Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations

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Although school crime and the use of security measures to combat school crime has been the focus of a number of prior empirical studies, there is substantially less information known about the relationship between school resource officers (SROs) and private security guards in schools and school crime. Using data from the 2006 School Survey on Crime and Safety, this study investigates the relationships among school characteristics and school crime with a particular focus on their differential effects across schools that utilize varying types of security personnel (e.g., no security, SROs only, or private security guards only) and use-of-force capabilities (e.g., oleoresin-capsicum spray/pepper spray, Tasers, and firearms). Results from a series of negative binomial regression models indicate that there is a considerable degree of variability in the effect of school characteristics on school crime across schools that utilize SROs only versus private security guards only. Additional results suggest that mid-level force capabilities are positively associated with school crime. Study limitations and implications are also discussed.

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On the Association Between SROs, Private Security Guards, Use-of-Force Capabilities, and Violent Crime in Schools

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Lanterman

et al. 2011

Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations

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“…In studies of both Caucasian and Hispanic children, parental marital status is protective of child delinquency (Sampson et al, 2005) and history of child abuse is a risk factor for delinquency (D. Perez, Jennings, & Gover, 2008). School attendance and academic performance are also associated with delinquency in both Caucasian and Hispanic populations (Chavez et al, 1994;D. Perez et al, 2008); however, Hispanic youth have a higher drop out rate than Caucasian youth (Laird, Cataldi, KewalRamani, & Chapman, 2008), which may contribute to perceived ethnic differences in delinquent behavior.…”

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“…For example, economic disadvantage is associated with increased delinquency (Fergusson, Swain-Campbell, & Horwood, 2004) and Hispanic youth are disproportionately affected by high levels of poverty (Chavez et al, 1994). In studies of both Caucasian and Hispanic children, parental marital status is protective of child delinquency (Sampson et al, 2005) and history of child abuse is a risk factor for delinquency (D. Perez, Jennings, & Gover, 2008). School attendance and academic performance are also associated with delinquency in both Caucasian and Hispanic populations (Chavez et al, 1994;D.…”

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“…The stresses associated with acculturation, such as discrimination, stigma, cultural identify, and intergenerational conflict, are thought to be associated with delinquent behavior (D. Perez et al, 2008). Neighborhood contexts, such as the concentration of ethnic groups within a neighborhood (Morenoff, Sampson, & Raudenbush, 2001;D.…”

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Violent and Nonviolent Delinquent Behavior Among Caucasian and Hispanic Youth in Mental Health Systems-of-Care Programs

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Garraza

Goldweber

2010

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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The prevention and reduction of violent and nonviolent delinquent behavior is a public health priority. In recent years, attention has turned to ethnic disparities in delinquent behavior in efforts to target programs to youth at greatest risk. This study uses longitudinal data from a national evaluation of a federally funded children's mental health systems-of-care program to examine self-reported delinquent and violent behavior among Caucasian and Hispanic youth who entered mental health services between 1997 and 2006. The results from hierarchical logistic regressions indicate that delinquent, but not violent behavior, decreased over time. There were no significant ethnic differences between these youth in either delinquent or violent behavior. Sociodemographic, clinical, and school characteristics were associated with delinquency and offer suggestions on where to intervene. Given that mental health problems and delinquent behavior frequently co-occur, juvenile justice and mental health agencies would benefit from close partnerships to help youth address these problems.

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“…The other key way pertains to the conditioning mechanism: migrant youth are especially prone to cope with strain and subsequent negative affects through crime and delinquency, as they are deprived of the social support resources needed for strain moderation through legitimate means. Such theoretical extensions of GST received empirical support in the above two studies [42,43].…”

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Delinquency and Crime among Immigrant Youth—An Integrative Review of Theoretical Explanations

Chen

Zhong

2013

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Although classical theorists tend to believe that immigrant youth are more delinquent than native-born adolescents, the existing empirical studies have shown the opposite. The current paper first gives a comprehensive overview of major theoretical explanations for the relatively lower level of delinquency among immigrant youth, including cultural perspectives, strain theories, social control theory, social learning theory, and social disorganization theory. The main argument is that immigrant youth who have not yet acculturated to the youth subculture of the host society are more law-abiding due to protections from their traditional traits (i.e., being more realistic, stronger ties with family/schools, less access to delinquent friends, and higher level of collective efficacy in homogeneous neighborhoods). All these theories are also applied to explain the generational differences in terms of delinquency: compared to earlier generations, later generations of immigrant youth are often more delinquent because they are more acculturated and the protective factors from their origins wear off over time. The continuing public and political bias toward immigrant youth has been explained by social constructionists. We further discuss the necessity of a synthesis of these theoretical approaches and the importance to examine both internal and international migration under similar theoretical frameworks in the modern era.

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Specifying General Strain Theory: An Ethnically Relevant Approach

Cited by 95 publications

References 57 publications

On the Association Between SROs, Private Security Guards, Use-of-Force Capabilities, and Violent Crime in Schools

On the Association Between SROs, Private Security Guards, Use-of-Force Capabilities, and Violent Crime in Schools

Violent and Nonviolent Delinquent Behavior Among Caucasian and Hispanic Youth in Mental Health Systems-of-Care Programs

Delinquency and Crime among Immigrant Youth—An Integrative Review of Theoretical Explanations

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