Research has long established differences in youth violence by race and gender, with Latino and African American males exhibiting higher rates than other groups of youth (CDC, 2006). The evidence examining violence among Latino youth is limited by the homogenization of all groups under a pan-ethnic label. Recent evidence by Sampson, Morenoff, and Raudenbush (2005) and Martínez (2003) suggests that important differences in violence may exist within the Latino population by ethnicity that may be due, in part, to experiencing different social environmental conditions. The overall goal of this dissertation is to unpack the roles of race/ethnicity in youth violence perpetration by examining structural and cultural elements that may play a role. In particular I: (a) summarize and critique frequently used family and neighborhood theories on youth violence, while proposing a conceptual model for the examination of violence among Latino youth; (b) describe the prevalence and risk for violent behaviors across race/ethnicity, and the distribution of risk and protective factors for violence in a nationally representative sample of Mexican/Mexican American, Cuban/Cuban American, Puerto Rican, Black, and White adolescents; (c) examine whether familism, an important cultural value among Latinos, is protective against youth violence, and how it operates across racial/ethnic subgroups, after adjusting for age, sex, family economic resources, and immigrant generation; and (d) assess the main and interactive effects of neighborhood socioeconomic status and neighborhood racial/ethnic composition on youth violence, after adjusting for age, sex, mother’s education, demographic familism, neighborhood residential stability, and immigrant concentration. Implications of findings for interventions and policy are also discussed.
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