Culture Conflict and Crime

Sellin, Thorsten

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“…Also, many of these groups had first-generation children adapting to what has been described as a culture shock. Conflicts between popular culture and mainstream culture created a strain for these new youth (Sellin 1938). In Adamson's (2000: 276) historical review comparing African-American and European-American gangs in the USA, he noted that "[i]mmigrant children, who found themselves caught between old-world communal practices of their parents and the norms of an often hostile host society, frequently got together in corner groups and gangs."…”

Section: Europe the Usa And Immigrationmentioning

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Gangs, Migration, and Crime: The Changing Landscape in Europe and the USA

Decker

Gemert²,

Pyrooz

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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The history of gangs is intertwined with migration. In America, a number of classic studies have reported on the possible causal link between immigration, socioeconomic position, social disorganization, and gang formation. More recently in Europe, the impact of migration on gangs reflects a complex mix of factors that also includes cultural and media influences. In addition, there are other contextual factors such as immigration and population movement that have received less attention, yet condition the relationship between structural factors and the formation of gangs. Processes such as immigration, migration, and resettlement have had an important impact on the transmission of gangs on an international, national, and local scale, often enhanced by the impact of immigration. This article examines the relationship between immigration, culture, and gangs and contrasts European and US research.Résumé L'histoire des gangs est entrelacée avec celle de la migration. En Amérique, plusieurs études classiques ont fait état d'un lien causal possible entre l'immigration, la position socio-économique, la désorganisation sociale et la formation de gangs. Plus récemment en Europe, l'impact de la migration sur les gangs reflète un mélange de facteurs, y compris des influences culturelles et médiatiques. De plus, certains facteurs contextuels comme l'immigration et les mouvements de population, qui ont moins fait l'objet d'étude, conditionnent néanmoins le rapport entre des facteurs structurels et la formation de gangs. Des processus comme l'immigration, la migration et le rétablissement ont eu un impact important sur la transmission des gangs à l'échelle internationale, nationale et locale. Cet article étudie le rapport entre l'immigration, la culture et les gangs, et dresse une comparaison entre la recherche européenne et la recherche américaine.

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Section: Europe the Usa And Immigrationmentioning

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Gangs, Migration, and Crime: The Changing Landscape in Europe and the USA

Decker

Gemert²,

Pyrooz

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…Individuals who do not smoke marijuana will likely be sanctioned by being excluded from the group in the future, others will be warned to share their pot with others, or be unwelcomed (ostracized) by the group when they decline to share (Johnson, 1973). 3 It must be noted that Sellin (1938) and Wolfgang and Ferracuti (1967) used the term "conduct norms" to refer to what we call "norms (general)" within a subculture. The definition of "conduct norms" provided here is designed to be more specific in time, place, and sets of actors than are "norms" within the subculture.…”

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“…The consequence is clear: an individual routinely acts in accord with the normative system (and usually follows the specific conduct norms) of the subgroup(s) within which she/he functions. Conduct norms may also be conceptualized as the specific rules which persons "internalize" (e.g., those norms and values which are incorporated as major elements of the individual personality system- Sellin, 1938). These conduct norms may become so internalized in the person's psychological makeup and ingrained in their external social environments that the person functions as if on "automatic pilot."…”

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Nurturing for Careers in Drug Use and Crime: Conduct Norms for Children and Juveniles in Crack-Using Households

Johnson

Dunlap

Maher

1998

Substance Use & Misuse

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A very sizable proportion of juvenile delinquents and adult criminals come from backgrounds and family kin systems having deviant parents or kin. This paper provides a focus upon the child-rearing practices directly observed by trained ethnographer during a case study of one highly criminal, drugusing household/kin network. The concrete expectations (and actual practices)-called conduct norms-with which the household adults respond to (or "nurture") children and juveniles are delineated. While children are taught to "pay attention" to what adults do, adults typically model various deviant activities and rarely engage in conventional behaviors. Drug-using, and especially crack-using, men and women are expected not to raise (or financially support) children born to them; other kin expect to raise children of such unions. Children are not expected, nor able, to develop strong affective bonds with any household adults, and receive little or no psychological parenting.

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“…Erklärungsansätze für deviantes Verhalten dieser Bevölkerungsgruppe sind mannigfaltig. Galt vor der konstruktivistischen Wende vor allem der auf Sellin (1938) zurückgehende Kulturkonflikt als Ursache, so wird heutzutage immer öfter auf die politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Ebenen hingewiesen, auf denen Migrantenjugendliche benachteiligt bzw. ausgeschlossen werden (vgl.…”

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Drogendealer im Spannungsfeld zwischen islamischen Werten, Alltag in Deutschland und Kriminalität / Drug Dealers Between Islamic Values, Everyday Life in Germany and Criminal Activity

Bucerius

2008

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Summary: This article draws on ethnographic research with a group of 55 young male Muslim migrants in Frankfurt, Germany. As their Islamic background, their lives in Germany, and their criminal activity in the drug market create a constant area of conflict, the aim of this article is to give an account of the group's self-constructions, techniques of neutralization, and coping mechanisms. Their distinct concept of purity and impurity, which has a major impact on their every-day lives (for example, in their choice between intra-or inter-confessional relationships and marriages as well as intra-and inter-ethnic ones) and on their decisions within the drug market (for example, in their choice of specific forms of violence, customers, business partners, and substances) will be analyzed in detail. The article shows not only that the behavior of drug dealers can be explained according to models of economic rationality and utilitarianism but also that the effects of cultural norms and values have to be taken into account as they influence and even impede the actions of the dealers. Their distinct concept of purity and impurity clearly distinguishes them from other drug dealers described in the literature. Moreover, this article illustrates how the group members constantly modify and adjust their concepts in order to meet the demands of their "Lebenswelt" (life world) in Germany and sustain the drug market over time.

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Culture Conflict and Crime

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Gangs, Migration, and Crime: The Changing Landscape in Europe and the USA

Gangs, Migration, and Crime: The Changing Landscape in Europe and the USA

Nurturing for Careers in Drug Use and Crime: Conduct Norms for Children and Juveniles in Crack-Using Households

Drogendealer im Spannungsfeld zwischen islamischen Werten, Alltag in Deutschland und Kriminalität / Drug Dealers Between Islamic Values, Everyday Life in Germany and Criminal Activity

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