SURVIVORS AND CONNIVERS: BEATING THE SYSTEM - ADAPTATION OF EXTRA-LEGAL VALUES OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS (BUREAUCRACY, FORGERY, SYSTEM-BEATING, MANIPULATION).
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Title
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SURVIVORS AND CONNIVERS: BEATING THE SYSTEM - ADAPTATION OF EXTRA-LEGAL VALUES OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS (BUREAUCRACY, FORGERY, SYSTEM-BEATING, MANIPULATION).
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Identifier
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AAI8508730
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identifier
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8508730
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Creator
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ROSNER, LYDIA S.
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Contributor
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Joseph Bensman
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Criminology and Penology
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Abstract
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Classical sociological theories of immigrant crime reflect the problems inherent in the industrialization, ghettoization and de-tribalization of the peasant and the concerns of a nation engrossed in the absorption of a large group of Southern Europeans during the last half of the 19th and early 20th century. These theories suggest that criminality is a result of the inability of this immigrant to enter mainstream American society except through marginal means and criminal endeavors and failing that through anomic responses. As such we are without theoretical understanding of currently arriving immigrants from countries already partly transformed by bureaucratic, urban and industrial society.;This study examines a new type of immigrant who comes from a bureaucratic society. It explores the thesis that there already exists within the Soviet Union a criminogenic ethic which the new immigrant population brings with it and adapts depending on past criminal experiences. The population studied is divided into Survivors and Connivers depending on the degree of their criminal activities. Focus is placed on areas of paper manipulation, national and international crimes, jurisdictional crossovers and possible organizational structure. The criminal behavior of this population differs from that of other previous peasant immigrations in that the skills and understandings encompassed by criminal activity within a bureaucratic society creates new, sophisticated crime by newly arrived immigrants.;Section l looks at the immigrant, American sociology and classical theories of crime and deviancy as they relate to past immigrations.;Section 2 examines the criminogenic ethic within the USSR.;Section 3 examines the meaning of crime to the Soviets and to the Americans and how an immigrant from one bureaucratic society adapts his value system upon immigration to another bureaucratic society.;Section 4 encompasses an ethnographic study of the new Russian population after immigration.;Section 5 compares previous immigrations to present ones and suggests research areas.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
