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The impact of xenophobic violence on the integration of immigrants
Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2018
question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I …-in-differences matching strategy, I find that macro exposure to xenophobic violence has an impact on several dimensions of socio …-immigrant violence can have indirect costs by impairing the integration of those immigrants who belong to the target group of xenophobic …
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The effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system : the case of California's proposition 47
Lofstrom, Magnus; Martin, Brandon; Raphael, Steven - 2019
We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration rates experienced by California residents from different racial and ethnic groups. In November 2014 California voters passed state proposition 47 that redefined a series of felony...
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Crime, unemployment, and xenophobia? : an ecological analysis of right-wing election results in Hamburg, 1986-2005
Rotte, Ralph (contributor); Steininger, Martin (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of right-wing extremist and populist parties in the German city state of Hamburg between 1986 and 2005. The ecological determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769604
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239273
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Equal time for equal crime? : racial bias in school discipline
Shi, Ying; Zhu, Maria - 2021
Well-documented racial disparities in rates of exclusionary discipline may arise from differences in hard-to-observe student behavior or bias, in which treatment for the same behavior varies by student race or ethnicity. We provide evidence for the presence of bias using statewide administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517235
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Correcting racial injustice : forensic DNA technology and the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted
D'Este, Rocco; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023
We study the effects of laws streamlining access to post-conviction forensic DNA technology ("DNA laws"). We present a conceptual framework in which DNA laws' effects differ by race due to unequal access to non-DNA exoneration technologies. Consistent with the framework's predictions, we find...
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Hate in the time of COVID-19 : racial crimes against East Asians
Carr, Joel; James, Jonathan G.; Clifton-Sprigg, Joanna; … - 2022
We provide evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racial hate crime in England and Wales. Using various data sources, including unique data collected through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from UK police forces, a difference-in-difference and event study approaches, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454919
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A detailed analysis of childhood victimization using national registers : forms and sequencing of violence and domestic abuse
Gorinas, Cédric - 2018
victimization surveys and compares the role of individual and family characteristics for five forms of childhood violence, including …, aggravated violence, and domestic abuse; that 30% of young victims of sex and threats will be victimized again; and that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814909
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How do mass shootings affect community wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental effects on the direct victims and their families. However, relatively little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316219
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …
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