Minorities, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Belgium

Hebberecht, Patrick

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“…This is true for all three nations. Immigration to Belgium, moreover, is unique in some aspects: As Hebberecht points out (1997), “immigration to Belgium differs from that in other European countries; it is not related to its colonial and postcolonial history in the former Belgian Congo” (p. 152). In fact, “Belgium has the smallest postcolonial immigration of all former colonial empires.…”

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Subnational Predictors of Racially Motivated Crime

Piatkowska

2016

International Criminal Justice Review

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This study draws upon theories of intergroup prejudice and bigoted violence to examine the effects of subnational correlates on the levels of racially motivated crime across different regions in four European countries between 1997 and 2013. To facilitate comparisons of hate crime across different nations, we estimate multilevel panel rate models where time is nested within the subnational units. The results reveal a significant and negative effect of the size of the foreign-born population on racially motivated crime, which is consistent with the power-differential hypothesis. In addition, we find that there is a concave curvilinear relationship between the size of the foreign-born population and racially motivated crime. The study concludes by discussing the role of contextual factors in predicting crime motivated by bias.

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“…If so, they may be particularly likely to become victims of hate-motivated violence. Similarly, while Belgium has experienced an inflow of the Maghrebis and Turks since the 1960s (Hebberecht, 1997), an additional substantial influx of Congolese in recent years could contribute to increases in hate-motivated violence.…”

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Subnational Predictors of Racially Motivated Crime

Piatkowska

2016

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…However, since the 1980s a new scenario has emerged. Fresh studies in several European countries (Andersson ; Junger‐Tas ; Natale ; Junger ; Albrecht ; Hebberecht ; Martens ; Tournier ; Killias ; Suisse DFJP ; Lagrange ; O'Nolan ) agreed on one basic point. They showed immigrant crime rates much higher (two to four times) than those observed in society at large.…”

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Looking for a Fair Country: Features and Determinants of Immigrants’ Involvement in Crime in Europe

Solivetti

2012

Howard J Crim Justice

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A rise in crime among immigrants allegedly occurred in Europe over the last decades. The origin of this phenomenon is obscure, and traditional theories offer conflicting explanations. The present article addresses these problems by using data regarding the 18 main countries in Western Europe. The results show that the immigrant share in crime figures varies greatly from country to country. This suggests that the non‐national contribution to crime is not associated with immigration per se, but with the contexts in which immigration occurs and features of the immigration inflow. The cross‐national analysis shows, in particular, that ‘culture, respect for rights and universalism’ in the host countries are associated with lower immigrant crime.

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“…Since the 1980s, studies conducted in most Western European countries have found immigrant crime figures markedly higher than those observed in the national population (Andersson 1984;Junger-Tas 1985;Natale 1988;Junger 1989;Tournier and Robert 1989;Albrecht 1993;Hebberecht 1997;Killias 1997;Lagrange 2010; O'Nolan 2011;…”

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Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective

Solivetti

2017

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This study purpose is to verify if there is an association between foreign immigration and crime. In doing this, the study investigates also some satellite aspects revolving around this possible association: the range of offences affected by immigration, the relationship between immigrant and native crime, and whether the immigration impact on crime is direct or indirect. The present study has addressed these issues by both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal analysis, the latter including an instrument. The study is based on data of the Italian provinces. Italy represents a critical case for studying the migration-crime relationship, because in this country the rise in foreign immigration has been sudden and its pace feverish. The cross-sectional analysis findings show that crime intensities are affected by time-invariant factors and marginally by immigration. On the contrary, the longitudinal analysis shows that variations in immigration had a positive impact on both the most serious and the most common offences, on property crimes as well as on crimes of violence. There is no evidence of indirect effects of immigration on crime or of a link with native crime. In contrast to previous literature regarding the U.S., Canada, and Australia, these results suggest that a spiralling immigration can affect crime. In terms of methods, these findings show that the standard synchronic analysis models can be biased by nonobserved factors and that therefore cross-sectional time-series models can offer significant advantages. Response to Reviewers: Please see the attached file "Comments & Answers". We were unable to place the text of the file here, due to problems of format concerning tables of data.

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Minorities, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Belgium

Cited by 5 publications

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Subnational Predictors of Racially Motivated Crime

Subnational Predictors of Racially Motivated Crime

Looking for a Fair Country: Features and Determinants of Immigrants’ Involvement in Crime in Europe

Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective

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