The Involvement of Different Ethnic Groups in Various Types of Crime in the Netherlands

Blom, Martine; Jennissen, Roel

doi:10.1007/s10610-013-9210-x

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“…Similar to other nondominant minorities (see, e.g., Andersen 2015; Blom & Jennissen 2014;Briggs et al 2005;Bui 2009;Hilton 2006;Marshall 1997;McNulty & Bellair 2003;Peterson 2012;Veen et al 2011), Israeli-Arabs are overrepresented in the criminal enforcement system compared to their relative size in the population. For instance, in 2014, the rate of adults convicted of all types of offenses per 1,000 residents was 10.3 for Israeli-Arabs and 4.1 for Jews (Central Bureau of Statistics 2017).…”

Section: Israeli-arabs and The Criminal Justice Systemmentioning

confidence: 78%

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses

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Gur-Arye

2020

J Empirical Legal Studies

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Studies of sentencing disparities show that in sentencing for cross‐race or cross‐ethnic violent offenses, minority defendants are likely to be sentenced to harsher punishments when the victim belongs to the majority group. Our study examines whether the same pattern of sentencing discrepancies is to be found with regard to offenses of omission, the prohibition of which imposes a legal duty to come to the aid of a victim; offenses that are based on social solidarity. The dataset includes all cases in which defendants were convicted of hit‐and‐run traffic offenses in Israel from 2001 to 2013. The surprising results show that hit‐and‐run drivers who belong to either the majority or minority ethnic group are likely to be sentenced to more severe punishments when the victim belongs to the same ethnic group than when the victim belongs to a different ethnic group.

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Section: Israeli-arabs and The Criminal Justice Systemmentioning

confidence: 78%

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses

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Gur-Arye

2020

J Empirical Legal Studies

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“…The paper provides evidence that planning enforcement officers in London can articulate a range of compliance issues arising from patterns of immigration, yetas for analyses of immigration more generally (Blom and Jennissen, 2014) -that they have difficulty in disentangling these issues from related characteristics such as race, ethnicity and religion. Planning enforcement officers attribute a range of characteristics to immigrants, but importantly also differentiate between immigrants from different countries, including on the extent to which they are likely to comply with planning regulations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Enforcing planning regulations in areas of high immigration: a case study of London

Harris¹

2017

Town Planning Review

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This paper explores the interface between immigration and compliance with planning regulations using data from interviews and a focus group with senior planning enforcement officers in London. The data reveals distinctive issues that arise for immigrants' compliance with planning regulations, specific types of residential, commercial and cultural breach that occur with immigration, and operational issues that arise when investigating and resolving planning breaches involving immigrant communities, including gender sensitivities and language barriers. The paper concludes that despite difficulty distinguishing immigration from ethnicity, faith or religious affiliation, there are important normative and principled aspects of i ig a ts compliance with planning regulations. .

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“…In any event, ethnic selectivity is less of a methodological concern here. Contrary to a significant part of the existing (quantitative) studies in the field of migration and crime (see for example [41,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]) we do not compare immigrants with non-immigrants, nor are we primarily interested in understanding differences in crime among different ethnic minorities (we only use national origin as a control variable). There is nonetheless a possibility that the police focused more on unauthorized immigrants and asylum seekers in the procedure than on naturalized citizens and residence permit holders.…”

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Civic stratification and crime. A comparison of asylum migrants with different legal statuses

Leerkes

Engbersen

Snel

et al. 2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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Contrary to natural born citizens, migrants can have a variety of legal statuses depending on how they are classified by immigration law. Together, such legal or 'civic' statuses constitute a system of civic stratification, from high (privileged) to low (restricted). Recent scholarship highlights the relevance of immigration law for understanding crime patterns. We analytically synthesize this literature and extend it empirically by examining its usefulness in explaining the relationship between asylum migrants' civic statuses in The Netherlands and their chances of being registered as a crime suspect. Logistic regression analyses were conducted using a unique dataset in which comprehensive administrative data from various governmental sources were combined. Four civic status groups were compared: naturalized citizens, residence permit holders, asylum seekers in the procedure, and former asylum seekers whose stay in the country had become unauthorized. The results suggest that strain theory and more constructionist stances are required in order to understand the complex relationship between civic stratification and crime. We discuss implications for other countries.

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The Involvement of Different Ethnic Groups in Various Types of Crime in the Netherlands

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses

Enforcing planning regulations in areas of high immigration: a case study of London

Civic stratification and crime. A comparison of asylum migrants with different legal statuses

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