Research Conference on Violence and Homicide in Hispanic Communities

• NCJ Number: 235972
• Editor(s): Jess F. Kraus, M.P.H., Ph.D., Susan B. Sorenson, Ph.D., Paul D. Juarez, Ph.D.
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 291 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: University of California, Los Angeles; National Institute of Mental Health; Ctr's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Office of Minority Health Ctr
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; Office of Minority Health Ctr
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Conference Material
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Research Conference University of California, Los Angeles, September 14-15, 1987

Annotation

This collection of research presented at a conference at the University of California examines violence and homicide in Hispanic communities.

Abstract

This volume is comprised of 16 research reports regarding violence and homicide in Hispanic communities. Reports include research on: assaultive injury among Hispanics as the key cause of disparity in burden of death; differences in patterns of homicide in White, Black, and Hispanic populations; data analysis on 12,872 homicides in Chicago over a 17-year period; estimates on homicide rates among subgroups of Hispanics and other ethnic groups in New York City from 1980 to 1983; ethnic and racial differences in 28,535 homicides in Southern California from 1966 to 1985; homicide patterns among Anglos, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in Bernalillo County, NM from 1978 through 1982; death certificate tabulations on minority homicides in Houston, Texas during 1984 through 1986; ethnicity, sex, victim-offender relationship, offender characteristics, place of birth, and proximity to the border in Texas homicides in 1986; grief reactions across mode of death (natural, accident, suicide, and homicide) among Whites, Black, and Hispanic Americans; incidence of child and spouse abuse in Hispanic families; base rates of psychopathology in Los Angeles comparing family violence among immigrant and non-immigrant Hispanic families; wife battering in Hispanic families and its possible line to elements of the Hispanic culture; Hispanic gang homicide in smaller cities; how barrio youth learn the way to act and think in the context of street realities; violence among Latinos from a health care perspective; and incidence and epidemiologic features of assault and firearms-related brain injuries among Hispanic and non-Hispanic residents in San Diego, California in 1981. Tables, figures, and references