Social Change, Life Strain, and Delinquency among Chinese Urban Adolescents

Bao, Wan-Ning; Haas, Ain

doi:10.1080/00380237.2009.10571358

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“…Moreover, Chan (2000) stated that there has been a high rate of violence against children in urban families, and most of the physical abuse is due to children's poor academic performance. Numerous studies have noted that the Chinese typically attribute academic success to effort and failure to lack of effort of the group (Bao & Haas, 2009). While in Western society, people chase after achievements simply for themselves (Matsumoto, Kiyatama, & Markus, 2000).…”

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“…Boys are more stressed when being compared with other relatives (78) and girls are more stressed by the parents' divorce (94). In a collectivist society like Asians (Bao & Haas, 2009;Nguyen & Mujtaba, 2011), expectations of significant others such as parents and teachers have more salience for youth than in an individualistic society like the US. Failure to meet these expectations can be very emotionally distressing and lead to negative outcomes (Bao & Haas, 2009).…”

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“…Consistent with the major task of adolescence in forging a sense of identity, frequent sources of stress stem from worries about self, which are often tied to coping with the expectations of friends, family, and the peer group (Bao & Haas, 2009;Yeo, Ang, Chong, & Huan, 2007). According to Ng and Hurry (2011), stress is correlated with non-productive coping.…”

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Exploring stressful live events on Indonesian adolescents

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“…Accordingly, migrant adolescents may be more delinquent than their local peers. Existing evidence indicates that China's ongoing social transformation has affected its migrant youth and fuelled the production of delinquency [121][122][123][124]. Thus, it will be valuable to conduct more studies on the relationship between internal migration and delinquency in developing countries such as China and compare the findings with those of the West regarding the possible similarities and differences in the patterns and underlying factors associated with migration and delinquency.…”

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Delinquency and Crime among Immigrant Youth—An Integrative Review of Theoretical Explanations

Chen

Zhong

2013

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Although classical theorists tend to believe that immigrant youth are more delinquent than native-born adolescents, the existing empirical studies have shown the opposite. The current paper first gives a comprehensive overview of major theoretical explanations for the relatively lower level of delinquency among immigrant youth, including cultural perspectives, strain theories, social control theory, social learning theory, and social disorganization theory. The main argument is that immigrant youth who have not yet acculturated to the youth subculture of the host society are more law-abiding due to protections from their traditional traits (i.e., being more realistic, stronger ties with family/schools, less access to delinquent friends, and higher level of collective efficacy in homogeneous neighborhoods). All these theories are also applied to explain the generational differences in terms of delinquency: compared to earlier generations, later generations of immigrant youth are often more delinquent because they are more acculturated and the protective factors from their origins wear off over time. The continuing public and political bias toward immigrant youth has been explained by social constructionists. We further discuss the necessity of a synthesis of these theoretical approaches and the importance to examine both internal and international migration under similar theoretical frameworks in the modern era.

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“…This is evident in the frequent applications of a variety of micro-level classic theories such as the general theory of crime (e.g., Lu, Yu, Ren, & Marshall, 2013;Pyrooz & Decker, 2013;Ren, He, Zhao, & Zhang, 2017;Wang, Chen, Xiao, Ma, & Zhang, 2012), social control theory (e.g., Bao, Haas, & Xie, 2016;Ngai, Cheung, & Ngai, 2007;L. Zhang & Messner, 1996, 1999, general strain theory (e.g., Bao & Haas, 2009;Bao, Haas, Chen, & Pi, 2014;Bao, Haas, & Pi, 2007), and subculture perspective (e.g., H. in the unique Chinese settings. Diverse populations of juveniles (e.g., school students, migrant children, incarcerated teens, etc.)…”

Section: Where Are We On Chinese Juvenile Justice Practices and Reseamentioning

confidence: 99%