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Title Ethnicity and causal mechanisms / [edited by] Michael Rutter, Marta Tienda.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction/preface / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda -- Natural experiments, causal influences, and policy development / Michael Rutter -- Growing up ethnic in the UK and US : comparative contexts for youth development / Marta Tienda -- The multiple facets of ethnicity / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda -- Educational attainments : ethnic differences in the UK / Barbara Maughan -- Race and ethnic inequality in educational attainment in the United States / Charles Hirschman and Jennifer C. Lee -- Racial and ethnic disparities in crime and delinquency in the United States / Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Explaining ethnic variations in crime and antisocial behavior in the UK / David J. Smith.
Cultural differences in the effects of physical punishment / Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Emma Sorbring -- Ethnicity and mental health : the example of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in Europe / Peter B. Jones & W.L. Alan Fung -- Ethnic variations in youth suicide / Jewelle Taylor Gibbs -- Ethnicity and intergenerational identities and adaptations in Britain : the socio-political context / Tariq Modood -- Assimilation, dissimilation, and ethnic identities : the experience of children of immigrants in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- Deciphering ethnicity : reflections on research opportunities / Marta Tienda and Michael Rutter.
Summary This book explains the role of ethnicity in group differences across social and psychopathological settings.
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Subject Minority teenagers -- Research.
Minority teenagers.
Research.
Minority teenagers -- United States.
United States.
Minority teenagers -- Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Ethnicity -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Ethnicity.
Psychological aspects.
Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology.
United Kingdom.
United States.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
Added Author Rutter, Michael, 1933-
Tienda, Marta.
Other Form: Print version: Ethnicity and causal mechanisms. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 9780521849937 (DLC) 2004030540 (OCoLC)57344072
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