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标题：Sueños, bandas y pistolas: la interacción entre la violencia adolescente y la inmigración en un barrio de la ciudad de Nueva York.
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作者：Pedro Mateu Gelabert
期刊名称：Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica
印刷版ISSN：1696-9219
出版年度：2004
卷号：2004
期号：02
出版社：Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica
摘要：Crime prevention is an important task to ensure the safety of schools, neighbourhoods and adolescents, but the design of effective interventions requires an adequate understanding of juvenile delinquency and its causes. This reports is based in a five-year ethnographic study of an immigrant community of New York City to describe how the process of immigration widens the generational gap between parents and their sons. The experience of immigration and the generational gap push adolescents to join gangs in their search for protection from local threats. While previous studies have explained adolescent violence among immigrants as a product of cultural alienation, this study suggest that a great deal of adolescent violence is a pragmatic response to the local conditions of insecurity and that crime prevention policies should aim to provide safety to adolescents.