CLJ 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Socioeconomic Status, Social Disorganization Theory, Acculturation
16 Aug 2016
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Chapter 6 immigration and crime (february 24) What does conventional wisdom suggest about immigration and crime: there are social variables and risk factors that predict crime, these social variables and risk factors are characteristic and indicative of immigrant communities. What are these variables and factors: socioeconomic status, education attainment, alcohol and illicit substance misuse, family size. Which factors that are unique to the immigrant status act to retard conventional wisdom: culturally based protective factors such as, traditional family structures, community homogeneity. The author believed that immigrants are underrepresented in criminal statistics.
