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Extending Immigration and Crime Studies: National Implications and Local Settings

April 27, 2012 Comments off
Source:  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
One of American society’s enduring debates centers on the immigration and violent crime relationship. This classic debate is revisited using data for individual homicide incidents and census-tract-level homicides in Miami, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The article starts with these two comparative cases because they mirror the immigration influx, Latino growth, and homicide decline seen throughout the country since 1980. These findings are also replicated in an analysis of the immigration and crime influx across the nation using U.S. counties in 2000. In sum, results from comparative cases, different time points, homicide motivations, and individual/community/national levels—and even controlling for Latino regional concentration—are reported. The findings were clear and unequivocal: more immigrants did not mean more homicide, and that outcome held across time and place.

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Categories: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, crime, Hispanics, social and cultural issues

Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy (introduction)

May 26, 2011 Comments off

Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy (introduction)
Source: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
From press release:

With teen moms being debated heavily in popular culture today, it’s easy to neglect the effects of fatherhood. However, recent research shows that young, disadvantaged men also affect a family and society. In fact, by age 30, between 68 and 75 percent of young men with a high school degree or less are fathers.

A new issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (published by SAGE) called “Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Family, Poverty, and Policy,” examines how poverty and lack of education are creating a “perfect storm of adverse events”.

Today almost half of all kids are being raised by at least one parent with a low educational background (high school degree or less by age 30) and a poor expected economic future. Additionally 62 percent of fathers with a high school degree or less earned less than $20,000 in 2002. These issues combine to create a roadmap to failure for young, disadvantaged dads.

To help explore and begin working on some solutions, co-editors of the volume Irwin Garfinkel, Ronald B. Mincy and Timothy Smeeding convened a national conference at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where economists, sociologists, and public policy experts presented their latest work. This conference included cross-cutting commentary on culture, race, and family functioning and longer-term relationships; and examined child support policy, school-to-work transitions, dropout, incarceration, and fatherhood-strengthening policies.

“Young Disadvantaged Men” presents the best thinking of national experts on the issues of immediate concern to those working through research, policy, and practice to reconnect disconnected dads to their children and thereby improve child and family economic and emotional well-being.

Full issue available for purchase.

Categories: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, children and families, gender and sexuality, poverty, race, social and cultural issues
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