Ethnicity and causal mechanisms
By: [edited by] Michael Rutter, Marta Tienda
Contributors: Rutter, Michael, 1933-; Tienda, Marta
Series: The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Minority teenagers -- Research; Minority teenagers -- United States; Minority teenagers -- Great Britain; Ethnicity -- United States -- Psychological aspects; Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects; Ethnopsychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction/preface / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda; title: Natural experiments, causal influences, and policy development / Michael Rutter; title: Growing up ethnic in the UK and US : comparative contexts for youth development / Marta Tienda; title: The multiple facets of ethnicity / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda; title: Educational attainments : ethnic differences in the UK / Barbara Maughan; title: Race and ethnic inequality in educational attainment in the United States / Charles Hirschman and Jennifer C. Lee; title: Racial and ethnic disparities in crime and delinquency in the United States / Jeffrey D. Morenoff; title: Explaining ethnic variations in crime and antisocial behavior in the UK / David J. Smith; title: Cultural differences in the effects of physical punishment / Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Emma Sorbring; title: Ethnicity and mental health : the example of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in Europe / Peter B. Jones & W.L. Alan Fung; title: Ethnic variations in youth suicide / Jewelle Taylor Gibbs; title: Ethnicity and intergenerational identities and adaptations in Britain : the socio-political context / Tariq Modood; title: Assimilation, dissimilation, and ethnic identities : the experience of children of immigrants in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut; title: Deciphering ethnicity : reflections on research opportunities / Marta Tienda and Michael Rutter