Juvenile arrest in America : race, social class, and gang membership /

Tapia studies how race, social class, and gang membership interact to shape arrest patterns for American youth. With differences in delinquency level controlled for the various subgroups of youth in the study, a critical test of labeling theory is executed. Modeling how social class and gang members...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Tapia, Mike, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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