James Diego Vigil
Biographic Data
| ID | 150746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Diego Vigil |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Diego |
| FAMILY NAME | Vigil |
| SIGNATURE | VIGIL J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Legacy of Joan W. Moore
Joan W. Moore was trained and tutored at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s to emphasize one thing: community studies, or people and places. Social science does not make sense if the places where people live and work and the environment in which they struggle is ignored. With the guidance and assistance of members of the Chicano community, she embarked on the greatest work of her career: community studies in which male and female gang me…
Human Targets
The Ghettoization of Blacks in Los Angeles
Acculturation and School Success
The Projects
The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics a…
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City
Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Anthropology & History
A Rainbow of Gangs
Urban Violence and Street Gangs
What causes urban street gang violence, and how can we better understand the forces that shape this type of adolescent and youth behavior? For close to a century, social researchers have taken many different paths in attempting to unravel this complex question, especially in the context of large-scale immigrant adaptation to the city. In recent decades these researchers have relied primarily on data gathered from survey quantitative approaches. T…
A Rainbow of Gangs
Chicano Macrostructural Identities and Macrohistorical Cultural Forces
King Kong on 4th Street
King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side. Jagna Wojcicka Sharff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.258 pp
Street Baptism
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Vigil; Street Baptism: Chicano Gang Initiation. Human Organization 1 June 1996; 55 (2): 149–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.55.2.3358547x86552mg4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendel…
Biological Anthropology
Barrio Gangs
Barrio Gangs
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang…
Group Processes and Street Identity
Chicano Gangs
Research Article| September 01 1987 Chicano Gangs: Group Norms and Individual Factors Related to Adult Criminality Joan W. Moore, Joan W. Moore University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar James Diego Vigil James Diego Vigil University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1987) 18 (2): 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1525/…
Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation-Chicano Paths to School Achievement
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Vigil, John Long; Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation—Chicano Paths to School Achievement. Human Organization 1 September 1981; 40 (3): 273–277. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.40.3.120861n258905582 Download citation file: R…
Female Gang Members from East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles cholas are the female counterparts of the cholos, the latter the street gang members that come from marginal situations and conditions. While there has been little research on female gang members overall, the role of females in the street life is significant. Sisters, girlfriends, and other relatives share the same backgrounds as male gang members but additionally carry on traditions of their own. Female gang cliques sometimes op…
Chicano Gangs
Mexican adaptation to urban areas in the United States has resulted in the rise of youth street groups and gangs. These Chicano groups/gangs are assessed within a framework which examines ecological, economic, cultural, and psychological aspects of that adaptation. Since the 1920s, Mexican immigrants and their children have typically settled in the poorer, neglected sections of the city, called barrios, and worked in menial, low-paid industries. …
From Indians to Chicanos
Urban Violence and Street Gangs
What causes urban street gang violence, and how can we better understand the forces that shape this type of adolescent and youth behavior? For close to a century, social researchers have taken many different paths in attempting to unravel this complex question, especially in the context of large-scale immigrant adaptation to the city. In recent decades these researchers have relied primarily on data gathered from survey quantitative approaches. T…
Group Processes and Street Identity
Acculturation and School Success
The Ghettoization of Blacks in Los Angeles
King Kong on 4th Street
King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side. Jagna Wojcicka Sharff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.258 pp
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City
Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation-Chicano Paths to School Achievement
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Vigil, John Long; Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation—Chicano Paths to School Achievement. Human Organization 1 September 1981; 40 (3): 273–277. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.40.3.120861n258905582 Download citation file: R…
Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation-Chicano Paths to School Achievement
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Vigil, John Long; Unidirectional or Nativist Acculturation—Chicano Paths to School Achievement. Human Organization 1 September 1981; 40 (3): 273–277. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.40.3.120861n258905582 Download citation file: R…
Chicano Gangs
Research Article| September 01 1987 Chicano Gangs: Group Norms and Individual Factors Related to Adult Criminality Joan W. Moore, Joan W. Moore University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar James Diego Vigil James Diego Vigil University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1987) 18 (2): 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1525/…
Barrio Gangs
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang…
Group Processes and Street Identity
Barrio Gangs
Biological Anthropology
Street Baptism
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Vigil; Street Baptism: Chicano Gang Initiation. Human Organization 1 June 1996; 55 (2): 149–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.55.2.3358547x86552mg4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendel…
King Kong on 4th Street
King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side. Jagna Wojcicka Sharff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.258 pp
A Rainbow of Gangs
Chicano Macrostructural Identities and Macrohistorical Cultural Forces
Anthropology & History
A Rainbow of Gangs
Urban Violence and Street Gangs
What causes urban street gang violence, and how can we better understand the forces that shape this type of adolescent and youth behavior? For close to a century, social researchers have taken many different paths in attempting to unravel this complex question, especially in the context of large-scale immigrant adaptation to the city. In recent decades these researchers have relied primarily on data gathered from survey quantitative approaches. T…
Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City
The Projects
The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics a…
The Ghettoization of Blacks in Los Angeles
Acculturation and School Success
Human Targets
The Legacy of Joan W. Moore
Joan W. Moore was trained and tutored at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s to emphasize one thing: community studies, or people and places. Social science does not make sense if the places where people live and work and the environment in which they struggle is ignored. With the guidance and assistance of members of the Chicano community, she embarked on the greatest work of her career: community studies in which male and female gang me…
Female Gang Members from East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles cholas are the female counterparts of the cholos, the latter the street gang members that come from marginal situations and conditions. While there has been little research on female gang members overall, the role of females in the street life is significant. Sisters, girlfriends, and other relatives share the same backgrounds as male gang members but additionally carry on traditions of their own. Female gang cliques sometimes op…
Chicano Gangs
Mexican adaptation to urban areas in the United States has resulted in the rise of youth street groups and gangs. These Chicano groups/gangs are assessed within a framework which examines ecological, economic, cultural, and psychological aspects of that adaptation. Since the 1920s, Mexican immigrants and their children have typically settled in the poorer, neglected sections of the city, called barrios, and worked in menial, low-paid industries. …
From Indians to Chicanos
Sociology (15 works) · Criminology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Citation (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works)