Acculturation, and Delinquency among Adolescent Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel

Abstract: This study is part of a larger project which follows the acculturation of youth from the Former Soviet Union in Israel over a period of three years. It reports the first wave of data collection that established a base line for a longitudinal comparison later on. This paper examines the relations between adolescent immigrants’ acculturation and involvement in delinquency. Acculturation is conceptualized as the outcome of interactions and encounters between the adolescent and the host society, i. e., the school, the peers and the bureaucracy. Like in many other studies, we used some proxies for acculturation such as length of residence, family economic conditions, and use of language, however, we also included direct measures of the adolescent’s perceptions and experiences of daily interactions with people and institutions in the host society. The current study is based on a face-to-face national survey conducted on a sample of 1,421 adolescents (ages 12-18) who have immigrated from .... https://www.biejournals.de/index.php/jkg/article/view/5667

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Acculturation, and Delinquency among Adolescent Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel ; volume:7 ; number:2 ; year:2005 ; Journal für Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung ; 7, Heft 2 (2005)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Fishman, Gideon ; Mesch, Gustavo

Further information

• DOI: 10.11576/jkg-5667
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022080518244125170995
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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