Longitudinal data from the National Youth Survey indicate that, in general, social control variables, such as attachment to family and educational aspirations, significantly predicted sexual activity among white adolescents, while strain variables, such as perceived inability to achieve educational goals, predicted sexual behavior of black…

This research focuses on immigration and youthful illegalities in the Toronto area, one of the world's most ethnically diverse global cities. While current research documents a negative relationship between crime and immigration, there is little attention to individual level mechanisms that explain the paths through which immigrant youth refrain…

Persons from high-ranked colleges are found to be consistently more liberal than those from low and unranked institutions. Most variance in attitudes by education lies between three major educational strata rather than within college educated group. (Author/AM)

Focusing on the development among youth of either an integrationist or separatist stance, the responses of junior and senior high school adolescents to a series of attitude items are examined in a factor analysis. Two clear and distinct response tendencies emerged, one an integration-separatist dimension and the other an approach-avoidance…