youth – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:56:42 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100012/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:45 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=628 This dataset pertains to individuals between the ages of 18 and 32, from immigrant families, and residing in New York city and a selection of surrounding areas. It examines the success or complication of assimilation of immigrants and children from families that immigrated from a number of countries including the former Soviet Union, Taiwan, Ecuador, Peru, and the West Indies.

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]]> Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, 1968 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100011/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:48 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=639 To summarize: This study explores attitudes and perceptions related to urban problems and race relations in 15 northern cities of the United States (Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, DC). More specifically, it seeks to define the social and psychological…

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]]> Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100009/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=593 This data collates monthly counts of arrests of juveniles for violent crime as reported by by police jurisdictions. Data are presented in counts broken down by type of crime; jurisdictions are grouped into regions. The original study was longitudinal and designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law (1978) on incidences of violent crime by juveniles.

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