ABSTRACT

Studies of Latino/a/x crime and victimization have proliferated in recent years confirming three main empirical realities: race and ethnicity remain consistently linked to criminological outcomes, the foreign-born are significantly less likely to report either crime or victimization, and nativity status (i.e., foreign-born or native-born) is associated with crime and victimization, even after controlling for germane covariates. The current study attempts to expand on this literature by examining the mediating and moderating effects of social bonds on nativity status in predicting violent victimization. Using data from the Add Health study, we estimate a series of regression and SEM models to assess if social bonds mediate or moderate the effect of nativity on self-reported victimization. Results indicate that native-born Latinos were significantly more likely to be victimized compared to their foreign-born counterparts, though the effect of nativity was reduced to marginal significance after inclusion of the mediating and moderating variables in the full models. Contrary to expectations, native-born and foreign-born Latinos did not differ significantly in terms of social bonds with parents (attachment and time spent with parents) but the foreign-born were significantly more likely to be closely monitored by their parents which partially mediated the association between nativity and violent victimization.

摘要

近年来，对拉丁裔/a/x 犯罪和受害的研究激增，证实了三个主要的实证现实：种族和民族始终与犯罪结果相关，外国出生的人报告犯罪或受害的可能性显着降低，以及出生状态（即，外国出生或本土出生）与犯罪和受害有关，即使在控制了密切相关的协变量之后也是如此。当前的研究试图通过检查社会纽带对出生状态在预测暴力受害方面的中介和调节作用来扩展这一文献。使用 Add Health 研究的数据，我们估计了一系列回归和 SEM 模型，以评估社会纽带是否介导或缓和了出生对自我报告受害的影响。结果表明，与外国出生的同龄人相比，本土出生的拉丁裔人更容易成为受害者，尽管在完整模型中包含中介和调节变量后，出生的影响降低到边际显着性。与预期相反，本地出生和外国出生的拉丁裔在与父母的社会纽带（依恋和与父母相处的时间）方面没有显着差异，但外国出生的人更可能受到父母的密切监控，这在一定程度上起到了中介作用出生与暴力受害之间的联系。