Exam 4: Hispanic Americans

Repatriation refers to the process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens.

The group label Hispanic Americans includes a population of people who share a common language heritage but have many significant differences.

By the mid-1990s, law enforcement agencies began to document a change in the gang culture. Respect no longer seemed to be based on age, experience, or knowledge. In the street code, respect was increasingly based on fear due to the loss of older gang leaders and the rapid increases in the size of individual street gangs.

With regard to arresting and detaining illegal or undocumented immigrants, the vast majority are those who have expired legal visas. These people are known as _______

Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term _______ whereas the term _______ is more often used in the East.

Which of the following are Hispanics more likely than Whites to be involved in the criminal justice process for the same offense

Data indicates that more Hispanic federal prison inmates had no previous criminal history, than Blacks or Whites.

Hispanics were least likely of all federal inmates to receive some type of substance abuse treatment.

Los Braceros were groups of bandits who roamed the American Southwest, victimizing people migrating to California.

Which of the following groups has not been considered in the discussion of police treatment of minorities, such as arrest rates, abusive practices, and the use of deadly force

Sanctuary laws

Of the many crimes for which Hispanics can be charged, which is the one for which they are most likely charged?

Gang life in the 1980s for Hispanics was dramatically different than in the past in That

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors is also known as _________ .

The Chicano people trace their ancestry to

Virtually all of the unauthorized are either visa overstayers, persons admitted on temporary visas who either stay beyond the expiration of their visas or otherwise violate their terms of admission.

The process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens is called ________

By the mid to late 1980s, the traditional ways of the Hispanic continue to be used in the operation of street gangs.

_________ were refugees from Cuba who were historically stigmatized as social deviants.

Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term Latino whereas the term Hispanic is more often used in the East.