Acculturation and attitudes toward violence among Latinos / Michele P. Bratina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bratina, Michele P., 1972-

Series:

Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation--United States.

Acculturation.

Violence--United States.

Violence.

Hispanic Americans--Attitudes.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bratina studied a group of Latino males to examine how attitudes that endorse the use of violence are influenced by assimilation. The sample was partially derived from Social Networking Sites (SNS) including MySpace and Facebook. The primary expectation was that pro-violent attitudes would vary depending on level of assimilation. Bratina expected a significant positive relationship between highly assimilated Latinos and pro-violent attitudes. By-and-large, endorsement of violence was low among this overwhelmingly assimilated group; however, multivariate analyses revealed a different picture.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Literature review

Latino assimilation in the United States

Description of research plan

Official data analysis

Discussion and conclusions

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593327118

1593327110

OCLC:

831120729