Description

The high rate of delinquency and gang activity in certain Asian American communities demands that we determine the reasons for this incidence and develop solutions. Why does the problem exist and persist? How can the problem be addressed? Our aim is to address those questions. In this volume, we begin with a review of the standard explanations for delinquency and gang activity that have been offered by academics who have reviewed these phenomena. We supplement those explanations with others that have been offered by professionals who work in the field. We then work through these explanations by providing accounts of delinquency by individuals in specific Asian American communities: Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong, Korean, and Indian. In the process, some of the conventional explanations for delinquency appear to be less important in these communities, while others take on more prominence.