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Immigration and Crime among Youth in Switzerland.
Alexander Vazsonyi and Martin Killias.
2001, Criminal Justice and Behaviour. Sage.
Article, Web Article
English.
The current investigation examined rates and predictors of deviance in a sample of Swiss youth. Data were collected from 3,136 youth; 800 cases were identified as first-generation (35%) or second-generation (65%) immigrant youth. We found that second-generation immigrant male youth were more deviant than Swiss adolescents, second-generation immigrant male youth were also more deviant than first-generation immigrants. Few important differences were found on measures of self-control and measures of perceived sanctions (get caught, shame/guilt, loss of respect) by immigrant status, and the predictive model employed explained between 23% and 51% of the variance in total deviance. Implications for crime and deviance in Switzerland are discussed.
Ivan Ureta.
University of Lugano.
Researcher.
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