It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big difference in … right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding …