ABSTRACT
The lives of individual newcomers reflected these choices, for their innate talent and intelligence would wither if confined to lower-class, no-exit jobs in factories and sweatshops. Common sense tells us that the individual's personal volition—his or her own free will—plays a major part in this decision. The social and psychological mechanism through which they accomplished this upward mobility beyond their lower-income newcomer origins is referred to by social scientists as anticipatory socialization. The child's parents play a crucial role for the initial impetus for this upward mobility comes from them. Crime is an exciting, thrilling game where criminals pit their skills and personalities against the "world out there." The style, language, and modus operandi of ethnic newcomer criminals may be different from those of bygone eras but the factors motivating their crimes remain the same. Ethnic crime and ethnic politics historically formed a working alliance that dates from the earlier part of nineteenth century and has continued to the present.
