| Autor: |
Torres, Cruz C., Applewhite, Steven R. |
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Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice; 2004, Vol. 2 Issue 1/2, p47-65, 19p, 4 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
The study seeks to determine (1) whether the crime seriousness ranking hierarchy identified by Rossi et al. in 1974 persists and (2) whether intra-group agreement on the relative ordering of crimes exists within a Mexican American sample stratified by age and sex. A self-administered survey questionnaire surveyed a sample of 525 college students and 426 parents. Respondents were asked to rank 20 crime offenses according to perceived seriousness. The analyses indicate that the older cohort of respondents is more conservative than the college students and that female students have lower tolerance for crime than their male counterparts. Among Mexican Americans, significant generational and sex differences exist in how serious certain behaviors are perceived. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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Complementary Index |
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