Title

Acculturation and fear of crime among Hispanics

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Abstract

Fear of crime has attracted significant attention in academic research. One area that has largely been overlooked concerns fear of crime correlates among Hispanics, the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Their unique cultural background as immigrants make them different from Non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans, and they all go through the acculturation process to some degree. However, the influence of acculturation has seldom been incorporated into the analysis. The current study attempts to use the acculturation thesis to examine two different types of fear among Hispanic residents in Houston, Texas. The findings suggest that acculturation is a significant predictor of crime-specific fear at home, but not of fear of crime in the neighborhood.

First Page

1

Last Page

20

DOI

10.1080/15377938.2016.1261059

Publication Date

1-2-2017

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