How Does Assimilation Status Among Hispanic Youth Impact Their Involvement in Violence and Victimization? - Interview at the 2010 NIJ Conference

• NCJ Number: 234683
• Date Published: June 2010
• Author(s): Holly Ventura Miller; Chris L. Gibson
• Length: 2 pages
• Agencies: NIJ
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical); Interview

Annotation

This is the video and transcript of a presentation at the 2010 NIJ Conference that reported on a study of how assimilation status among Hispanic youth affected their involvement in violence and victimization.

Abstract

Based on data obtained from the Chicago project on human development - a longitudinal study of children, multiple cohorts, and 80 neighborhood clusters - the current study focused on the Hispanic children in the 9, 12, and 15 year-old cohorts to determine whether there was a link between generational status and involvement in violence perpetration and violent victimization. Consistent with previous research, the study found that third-generation immigrant Hispanics were more likely than the first and second generational cohorts to be involved in violence perpetration. In addition, the study found that second-generation immigrants were more likely to be victims of violence than first-generation Hispanic children. Neither delinquent peers nor self-control mediated the relationship between generational status and violence perpetration; however, delinquent peers did mediate the relationship between generational status and violent victimization.