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

This book explains the role of ethnicity in group differences across social and psychopathological settings.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Rutter, Michael, 1933-, Tienda, Marta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence.
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Table of 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.