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Source: New York University Press
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1. Alba, Richard
Abdel-Hady, Dalia
Islam, Tariqul
Marotz, Karen
Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment
In: The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. R. Alba and M Waters, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2011: 95-109
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: New York University Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; General Social Survey (GSS); Hispanic Studies; Hispanic Youth; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS)

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Chapter 5: In this chapter, we approach the same problem with national data that allow us to compare parents and children: we examine the educational attainments of Mexican Americans in several different data sets, including the General Social Survey (GSS), the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) of 1979, and the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988. The GSS data enable us to gain an overview of generational differences across a broad span of historical time (i.e., birth cohorts), while the NLSY and NELS data allow us to focus on specific recent birth cohorts (1957–1964 in the case of the NLSY and 1972–1975 in that of NELS). The picture we gain is consistent across all three: “downward” assimilation, as evidenced by intergenerational stagnation in education, is uncommon in both the second and the third generations of Mexican Americans. In general, the young members of each generation make a substantial advance beyond the educational attainments of their parents; this intergenerational differential, which averages more than two years even in the third generation, is substantially greater than that found among non-Hispanic whites. Paradoxically, however, even in the recent cohorts of the third generation, the educational attainment of Mexican Americans does not show signs of catching up with that of whites.
Bibliography Citation
Alba, Richard, Dalia Abdel-Hady, Tariqul Islam and Karen Marotz. "Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment" In: The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. R. Alba and M Waters, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2011: 95-109
2. Heimer, Karen
Kruttschnitt, Candace
Gender and Crime : Patterns in Victimization and Offending
New York, NY: New York University Press, 2005
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: New York University Press
Keyword(s): Crime; Gender Differences

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See chapter, "Making Sense of Intersections" / Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs

Introduction : New insights into the gendered nature of crime and victimization / Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt -- In and out of crime : a life course perspective on girls' delinquency / Peggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Deines, and Stephen A. Cernkovich -- Stuck up, telling lies, and talking too much : the gendered context of young women's violence / Jody Miller and Christopher W. Mullins -- No place for girls to go : how juvenile court officials respond to substance abuse among girls and boys / Hilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, and Marjorie S. Zatz -- Killing one's children : maternal infanticide and the dark figure of homicide / Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy -- The crimes of poverty : economic marginalization and the gender gap in crime / Karen Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, and Halime Unal -- The violent victimization of women : a life course perspective / Candace Kruttschnitt and Ross Macmillan -- Predictors of violent victimization : national crime victimization survey women and jailed women / Laura Dugan and Jennifer L. Castro -- Female and male homicide victimization trends : a cross-national context / Gary LaFree and Gwen Hunnicutt -- Restorative justice for victims of sexual assault / Kathleen Daly and Sarah Curtis-Fawley -- Making sense of intersections / Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs -- The role of race and ethnicity in violence against women / Janet L. Lauritsen and Callie Marie Rennison.

Bibliography Citation
Heimer, Karen and Candace Kruttschnitt. Gender and Crime : Patterns in Victimization and Offending. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2005.
3. Simpson, Sally S.
Gibbs, Carole
Making Sense of Intersections
In: Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. K. Heimer and C. Kruttschnitt, eds. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2005: pp. 269-302.
Also: http://www.nyupress.org/books/Gender_and_Crime-products_id-3826.html
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: New York University Press
Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Modeling; Racial Differences; Self-Regulation/Self-Control

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Annotation: This study examined whether four general theories of delinquency--strain, low self-control, social learning, and control theories--explained juvenile offending better than an intersectional model that accounted for how gender, race, and class impact delinquency.

Overall, the findings suggest that the intersectional (class, gender, race) breakdown analysis provided a better fit to the data than the pooled sample across the four gender-neutral theories. Results of the quantitative analysis of each theory demonstrated significant differences in delinquency based on gender, race, and class, suggesting that the four so-called gender-neutral theories could account for how these factors might impact delinquency. However, the analysis also revealed factors that differed across these groups, suggesting limitations within the four general theories of delinquency. For example, having multiple sex partners was a better predictor of delinquency among the higher social classes than among the disenfranchised, but self-control theory could not explain why. Similarly, mother's social control was a stronger crime inhibitor for Blacks than for Whites, which was better explained by intersectional models than by control theory. The findings suggest that quantitative analysis is an effective tool for detecting intersectional differences resulting from gender, class, and race and can support feminist assertions that general theories of delinquency are less universal than their proponents claim. Data were drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) and concentrated on the responses provided by the 2,716 males and females aged 15 to 16 years who responded to wave 1 and wave 2 interviews. The analysis focused on delinquent acts committed between the first and second interview and included factors relevant to the four theories under examination. Control variables included age, urban area, and prior delinquency. Statistical analysis of the data included the calculation of chi-square estimates to test the overall model fit.

Bibliography Citation
Simpson, Sally S. and Carole Gibbs. "Making Sense of Intersections" In: Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. K. Heimer and C. Kruttschnitt, eds. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2005: pp. 269-302.