Research in the area of youth violence has identified multiple causes and pathways of development that lead to aggression, violence, and other problem behaviors (Patterson, DeBaryshe, & Ramsey, 1989;Tolan, Guerra, & Kendall, 1995). An array of risk and protective factors has been delineated emphasizing individual, peer, family, and community predictors. Given the disproportionate rates of youth violence among ethnic minority youth, it is particularly important to examine the salience of these risk factors for children from distinct ethnic groups as well as to examine risk factors directly linked to an individual's ethnic background.In general, this area of inquiry has been somewhat neglected. In particular, there is a paucity of research that focuses on the psychological processes related to ethnicity that increase or decrease the risk of youth violence. For the most part, the link between ethnicity and violence has been attributed Data collection for the work reported in this chapter was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH43084) and the Carnegie Corporation (B4850) awarded to Edward
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