Choo 1-59332-148-1


	Edited by Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III

		Gangs and Immigrant Youth
		Kyung-Seok Choo

			Choo explores group delinquency in the Asian American community. His primary focus is two youth groups, a Korean affiliated Chinese youth gang and a Korean delinquent group. The two groups have evolved through different processes and under different community circumstances. Both manifest differing patterns of delinquent activities and require different approaches to their problems. By analyzing the demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural characteristics of the Korean immigrant community, the book discusses the unique lifestyle of Korean-American immigrants in relation to their youth and group delinquency problem. Choo also explains the phenomenon of gangs and immigrant youth by detailed comparison of the emergence, development, persistence and change of theser two distinctive groups.

		Kyung-Seok Choo is currently assistant professor of criminal justice program at Utica College in Utica, New York. He has taught in the areas of comparative criminal justice, gangs in America, organized crime, research and analytical method for fraud management. He received a Robert Clayman Dissertation Fellowship for his Asian gang research in 2003.

		xiv, 200 pages. Index, bibliography. ISBN 978-1-59332-148-2 (casebound) $62. Published 2006.