Latino Population To Community Violence: A Case Study

As criminal justice professionals searching for the “why” as it relates to criminality and the individuals involved in the day to day delinquent acts that plague our communities, it is first necessary to determine the “who.” The U.S. Census Bureau has projected that during the twenty-first century U.S. population growth will materialize through immigration and the births to immigrants and their descendants. Therefore the population associated with present racial and ethnic minorities is projected increase to fifty percent by mid-century and sixty percent towards by the end of the century. The results encountered by racial and ethnic minorities in groups and as individuals, will depend on external factors dealing discrimination, economic opportunities, residential and education segregation as well as racial and …show more content…
The makeup of the Latino group is a young recently arrived immigrant embedded in the period of their life in which there is a crucial change in psychosocial progression, identity reshaping along with consistent exposure to their external surroundings and unpredictable actions. There have been evaluations that attempt to associate the impact of change to the Latino population to community violence. However, consideration must be given due to economic barriers and structural disadvantages (Stansfield, 2014). The elements related to the violence linked to these young people in minority groups extend pass racial and ethnic lines, they are low educational standards and socioeconomic status as well as environmental adversities. There is structural factors that will explain a section of the association between race and violence. However, structure by itself displays an incomplete depiction of race and ethnic composition effects on violence(Feldmeyer et al.,