RT Article
T1 Immigration Influx as a Trigger for Right-Wing Crime: a Temporal Analysis of Hate Crimes in Germany in the Light of the ‘Refugee Crisis'
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 3
SP 620
OP 641
A1 Piatkowska, Sylwia J.
A2 Hövermann, Andreas 1983-
A2 Yang, Tse-Chuan
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694816060
AB This study examines the conditions under which increased immigration rates serve as a catalyst for right-wing politically motivated crime across 16 German regions. The main objective is to focus on regional immigration rates as a potential trigger for threat perceptions by not only testing their principal effects but also by considering their interactions with structural environments. The analyses are grounded in a quasi-experimental setting because Germany recently witnessed an increase in immigration, publicly referred to as the ‘refugee crisis'. The results reveal differences in the comparable models, insofar as high regional immigration rates are particularly associated with hate crimes during times of high immigration influx, illustrating how a signal event such as the ‘refugee crisis' might trigger amplified threat perceptions.
K1 Hate crime
K1 Immigration
K1 Germany
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz073