Sylwia J Piatkowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 136982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylwia J Piatkowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylwia J |
| FAMILY NAME | Piatkowska |
| SIGNATURE | PIATKOWSKA S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4677-4090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social disorganization or defended Neighborhoods? New evidence from area-identified National Crime Victimization Survey Data
A substantial body of work has aimed to elucidate the spatial distribution of hate crimes, frequently referencing the defended neighborhood hypothesis and traditional ecological theories of crime, such as social disorganization theory. Although both theoretical frameworks recognize the importance of community characteristics, they differ in their interpretation of the underlying theoretical mechanisms. To date, however, comprehensive evaluations …
Group threat and power-differential theories as differential predictors of religion-motivated hate crimes and the construction of local hate crime statistics
Concerning Mental Illness: Intersectionality, Focal Concerns, and Mental Illness in Sentencing Between 1986 and 2016
Over half of incarcerated individuals self-report a history of mental illness. Applying focal concerns theory, it is possible that sentencing agents might view mental illness as reducing culpability and/or increasing practical constraints, potentially leading to shorter sentences. However, due to stereotypes of the unpredictability of mental illness, it may also heighten concerns about risk of recidivism, resulting in longer sentences. Furthermor…
Police bias units and hate crime reporting: Insights from the geocoded version of the National Crime Victimization Survey
This study examines the role of police bias units as a factor in hate crime reporting. We use a series of survey logistic regression models to analyze a restricted version of the National Crime Victimization Survey, which we merge with data on the presence of police bias units. The results indicate that the greater presence of police bias units is positively associated with an increased likelihood of hate crime reporting. Notably, with an initial…
When do Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Matter? Examining Country-Level Variation in the Association between Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Support for Capital Punishment
Using survey data from 70 countries across all continents, we explored the macro-level contexts that intensify the association between anti-immigrant attitudes and punitiveness. Specifically, we examined whether group threat and cultural backlash theories successfully identify the key macro-level factors that moderate the association between anti-immigrant sentiments and support for capital punishment. Estimating multilevel models with random slo…
Underlying Dimensions of Racial Residential Segregation and Police-Caused Homicide of Blacks: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Core Based Statistical Areas
This work builds upon previous research to assess the associations between underlying dimensions of racial residential segregation and police-caused homicide of Black civilians. Previous scholars have observed that much of the existing work on residential segregation and police-caused homicide has used one measure of segregation, most commonly the dissimilarity index, although recent work has expanded the focus to include multiple indicators of s…
Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia
The present study provides an initial attempt to assess the impact of extremist right electoral support on racially motivated and extremist violent crime rates across Slovak regions. We transcend previous research by examining associations between national and regional elections, immigration rates, vote-shares, and violent hate crime rates utilizing temporal statistics on racially motivated and extremist violent crimes, which are linked with data…
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases
Immigrant threat, perception of unsafety, and political articulation of immigration and multiculturalism in European countries
A large body of work has examined the relationship between population composition and risk of victimization. Past research has also suggested that the nature of political rhetoric may have profound impacts on perceived threat, fear of crime, and moral panic. This study constitutes the first attempt to examine the relationships between the negative political articulation of both immigration and multiculturalism by extreme right-wing parties and th…
Covid-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: A temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic
Immigrant-Ethnic Activity Space (Ieas), Ex-Prisoner Concentration, and Recidivism
Prior research measures immigration by only accounting for where immigrants live. We argue that this approach misses the activity spaces of immigrants, which also impact crime but are not always located in their residential communities. The present study uses an alternative definition of immigration—immigrant-ethnic activity space (IEAS)—that accounts for both the residential location and routine activities of immigrants. Additionally, given the …
Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts
An Empirical Examination of the In-Prison Behaviors of Foreign-Born Individuals: Does Nationality Predict Misconduct
The current study investigates how immigrants cope and adapt to the “pains of imprisonment” by examining a specific maladjustment outcome—disciplinary infractions. Like other groups (e.g., females, LGBTQ, elderly), immigrants are regarded as a special population in prison considering that they encounter a unique set of challenges that the typical incarcerated person does not. At the same time, immigrants are not a monolithic group, and there are …
Foreign-born arrestees and recidivism: A multilevel analysis of arrest data from a Florida county Sheriff’s office
The “New Fiscal Criminology”: State-Level Changes in Crime Rates and the Structure of Tax Systems
Prior research has examined the effects of social welfare on levels of crime in the U.S. The emphasis has been on how governmental support in the form of social spending may influence crime levels because it serves as a mechanism to lessen the impact of adverse financial circumstances that may stimulate criminal behavior. This study builds on prior research by assessing the impact of another mechanism that affects the distribution of economic res…
Group Threat, Same-Sex Marriage, and Hate Crime Based on Sexual Orientation
Prior research has begun the task of assessing the applicability of group threat theory to explain sexual orientation hate crime. Drawing upon this perspective, researchers have hypothesized that relatively large and growing gay populations might be perceived as a threat to heterosexual norms, leading to sexual orientation hate crimes. Previous work has also identified an additional source of threat that may be particularly salient: threat to tra…
Begging for Crime? The Effect of State Laws Restricting Access to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families on Unsuccessful Completion of Parole
Transitioning from prison to the community can pose significant hardships as returning individuals seek to support themselves while searching for work and housing. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one potential service that can help ease this transition, however, in numerous states TANF is not available to many former offenders. We conduct a fixed effects analysis on laws banning TANF assistance and state rates of unsuccessful pa…
The Effect of Legal Status on Prison Misconduct
The present study examines the relationship between legal status and prisoner misconduct by comparing official disciplinary infraction reports between documented, undocumented, and native-born inmates. We also examine the extent to which such effects vary across different types (i.e., criminal and non-criminal) of reported infractions. Using data from the Florida Department of Corrections, the results reveal that undocumented foreigners have a hi…
Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis
Drawing on theories of intergroup conflict and research on political legitimization of prejudice and crime motivated by bias, this study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in the aftermath of triggering events in the UK. In addition to domestic and nondomestic terrorist attacks, we consider the effects of the EU referendum widely known as Brexit. Consistent with previous work, the results reveal sharp increases of hate crimes in the …
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales
This study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in Scotland, England and Wales in the wake of the Brexit vote and the 2017 terrorist attacks. Using an interrupted time-series design, we analyzed hate crime data by motivation type and month as provided by area police forces under the Freedom of Information Act. The results revealed a significant increase in crimes based on religious bias in Scotland, England and Wales after the 2017 ter…
Immigration Influx as a Trigger for Right-Wing Crime: A Temporal Analysis of Hate Crimes in Germany in the Light of the ‘Refugee Crisis’
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 beca…
Poverty, Inequality, and Suicide Rates: A Cross-National Assessment of the Durkheim Theory and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence
This study draws on the theories of Emile Durkheim and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence to examine the effect of poverty on suicide rates across 15 Western European nations and the United States between 1993 and 2000. To achieve our goal, we take advantage of absolute and relative poverty measures, along with infant mortality rates, utilized in recent cross-national research on homicide rates. The results from fixed-effects regression models…
Xenophobic and racially motivated crime in Belgium: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regressions of Structural Covariates
This study employs exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial count regression models to examine xenophobic and racially motivated crimes in Belgium between 2000 and 2012. Drawing upon recent work, we conceptualize and operationalize hate crime in multiple ways, reflecting "spaces of hate," victimization risks, and risks adjusted for random interactions. The results reveal that hate crimes exhibit a distinct spatial imprint, which corresponds …
Socio-Economic Development, Economic Fluctuations, and Age-Specific Suicide: A Cross-National Test of the Durkheim, Henry and Short, and Ginsberg Theories
This study draws on the theories of Durkheim, Henry and Short, and Ginsberg to assess the impact of short-term and long-term socio-economic change on suicide rates of different categories of age and gender. We employ a pooled cross-sectional time-series data set comprised of 17 Western European nations covering a period of over 50 years (1956–2012). Results from fixed-effect variable-parameter time-series regression models reveal that indicators …
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
Immigrants' confidence in police: Do Country-Level Characteristics Matter
This study examines the effects of national-level factors on immigrant levels of confidence in police across different countries. Data are pulled from the World Values Survey, which is linked to country information regarding population composition, levels of discrimination, government efficiency, and homicide rates. Results from hierarchical logistic regression analyses reveal that individuals who reside in countries with higher political discrim…
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales
This study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in Scotland, England and Wales in the wake of the Brexit vote and the 2017 terrorist attacks. Using an interrupted time-series design, we analyzed hate crime data by motivation type and month as provided by area police forces under the Freedom of Information Act. The results revealed a significant increase in crimes based on religious bias in Scotland, England and Wales after the 2017 ter…
Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis
Drawing on theories of intergroup conflict and research on political legitimization of prejudice and crime motivated by bias, this study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in the aftermath of triggering events in the UK. In addition to domestic and nondomestic terrorist attacks, we consider the effects of the EU referendum widely known as Brexit. Consistent with previous work, the results reveal sharp increases of hate crimes in the …
Immigration Influx as a Trigger for Right-Wing Crime: A Temporal Analysis of Hate Crimes in Germany in the Light of the ‘Refugee Crisis’
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 beca…
Xenophobic and racially motivated crime in Belgium: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regressions of Structural Covariates
This study employs exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial count regression models to examine xenophobic and racially motivated crimes in Belgium between 2000 and 2012. Drawing upon recent work, we conceptualize and operationalize hate crime in multiple ways, reflecting "spaces of hate," victimization risks, and risks adjusted for random interactions. The results reveal that hate crimes exhibit a distinct spatial imprint, which corresponds …
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe
The present study builds on previous work by Andresen by examining the effects of entry into the European Union (EU) on the levels of homicide in the 10 Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Andresen’s research has indicated that accession to the EU led to increased levels of violent crime across municipalities in Lithuania over the 2001–2006 period. We go beyond prior work by using pooled cross-sectional time-series dat…
Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia
The present study provides an initial attempt to assess the impact of extremist right electoral support on racially motivated and extremist violent crime rates across Slovak regions. We transcend previous research by examining associations between national and regional elections, immigration rates, vote-shares, and violent hate crime rates utilizing temporal statistics on racially motivated and extremist violent crimes, which are linked with data…
Poverty, Inequality, and Suicide Rates: A Cross-National Assessment of the Durkheim Theory and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence
This study draws on the theories of Emile Durkheim and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence to examine the effect of poverty on suicide rates across 15 Western European nations and the United States between 1993 and 2000. To achieve our goal, we take advantage of absolute and relative poverty measures, along with infant mortality rates, utilized in recent cross-national research on homicide rates. The results from fixed-effects regression models…
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov
We appreciate the careful attention that Professor Toshkov has devoted to our research, and we are grateful for the opportunity to respond. Given the space constraints, we must be very brief. We focus on his criticisms of assumptions. 1 Professor Toshkov argues that our findings and conclusions are based on three assumptions that he claims are unwarranted: (i) the decision to take the natural logarithm of the homicide rate; (ii) the use of a 1-ye…
Immigrants' confidence in police: Do Country-Level Characteristics Matter
This study examines the effects of national-level factors on immigrant levels of confidence in police across different countries. Data are pulled from the World Values Survey, which is linked to country information regarding population composition, levels of discrimination, government efficiency, and homicide rates. Results from hierarchical logistic regression analyses reveal that individuals who reside in countries with higher political discrim…
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe
The present study builds on previous work by Andresen by examining the effects of entry into the European Union (EU) on the levels of homicide in the 10 Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Andresen’s research has indicated that accession to the EU led to increased levels of violent crime across municipalities in Lithuania over the 2001–2006 period. We go beyond prior work by using pooled cross-sectional time-series dat…
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov
We appreciate the careful attention that Professor Toshkov has devoted to our research, and we are grateful for the opportunity to respond. Given the space constraints, we must be very brief. We focus on his criticisms of assumptions. 1 Professor Toshkov argues that our findings and conclusions are based on three assumptions that he claims are unwarranted: (i) the decision to take the natural logarithm of the homicide rate; (ii) the use of a 1-ye…
Xenophobic and racially motivated crime in Belgium: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regressions of Structural Covariates
This study employs exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial count regression models to examine xenophobic and racially motivated crimes in Belgium between 2000 and 2012. Drawing upon recent work, we conceptualize and operationalize hate crime in multiple ways, reflecting "spaces of hate," victimization risks, and risks adjusted for random interactions. The results reveal that hate crimes exhibit a distinct spatial imprint, which corresponds …
Socio-Economic Development, Economic Fluctuations, and Age-Specific Suicide: A Cross-National Test of the Durkheim, Henry and Short, and Ginsberg Theories
This study draws on the theories of Durkheim, Henry and Short, and Ginsberg to assess the impact of short-term and long-term socio-economic change on suicide rates of different categories of age and gender. We employ a pooled cross-sectional time-series data set comprised of 17 Western European nations covering a period of over 50 years (1956–2012). Results from fixed-effect variable-parameter time-series regression models reveal that indicators …
Immigration Influx as a Trigger for Right-Wing Crime: A Temporal Analysis of Hate Crimes in Germany in the Light of the ‘Refugee Crisis’
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 beca…
Poverty, Inequality, and Suicide Rates: A Cross-National Assessment of the Durkheim Theory and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence
This study draws on the theories of Emile Durkheim and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence to examine the effect of poverty on suicide rates across 15 Western European nations and the United States between 1993 and 2000. To achieve our goal, we take advantage of absolute and relative poverty measures, along with infant mortality rates, utilized in recent cross-national research on homicide rates. The results from fixed-effects regression models…
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales
This study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in Scotland, England and Wales in the wake of the Brexit vote and the 2017 terrorist attacks. Using an interrupted time-series design, we analyzed hate crime data by motivation type and month as provided by area police forces under the Freedom of Information Act. The results revealed a significant increase in crimes based on religious bias in Scotland, England and Wales after the 2017 ter…
Foreign-born arrestees and recidivism: A multilevel analysis of arrest data from a Florida county Sheriff’s office
The “New Fiscal Criminology”: State-Level Changes in Crime Rates and the Structure of Tax Systems
Prior research has examined the effects of social welfare on levels of crime in the U.S. The emphasis has been on how governmental support in the form of social spending may influence crime levels because it serves as a mechanism to lessen the impact of adverse financial circumstances that may stimulate criminal behavior. This study builds on prior research by assessing the impact of another mechanism that affects the distribution of economic res…
Group Threat, Same-Sex Marriage, and Hate Crime Based on Sexual Orientation
Prior research has begun the task of assessing the applicability of group threat theory to explain sexual orientation hate crime. Drawing upon this perspective, researchers have hypothesized that relatively large and growing gay populations might be perceived as a threat to heterosexual norms, leading to sexual orientation hate crimes. Previous work has also identified an additional source of threat that may be particularly salient: threat to tra…
Begging for Crime? The Effect of State Laws Restricting Access to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families on Unsuccessful Completion of Parole
Transitioning from prison to the community can pose significant hardships as returning individuals seek to support themselves while searching for work and housing. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one potential service that can help ease this transition, however, in numerous states TANF is not available to many former offenders. We conduct a fixed effects analysis on laws banning TANF assistance and state rates of unsuccessful pa…
The Effect of Legal Status on Prison Misconduct
The present study examines the relationship between legal status and prisoner misconduct by comparing official disciplinary infraction reports between documented, undocumented, and native-born inmates. We also examine the extent to which such effects vary across different types (i.e., criminal and non-criminal) of reported infractions. Using data from the Florida Department of Corrections, the results reveal that undocumented foreigners have a hi…
Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis
Drawing on theories of intergroup conflict and research on political legitimization of prejudice and crime motivated by bias, this study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in the aftermath of triggering events in the UK. In addition to domestic and nondomestic terrorist attacks, we consider the effects of the EU referendum widely known as Brexit. Consistent with previous work, the results reveal sharp increases of hate crimes in the …
An Empirical Examination of the In-Prison Behaviors of Foreign-Born Individuals: Does Nationality Predict Misconduct
The current study investigates how immigrants cope and adapt to the “pains of imprisonment” by examining a specific maladjustment outcome—disciplinary infractions. Like other groups (e.g., females, LGBTQ, elderly), immigrants are regarded as a special population in prison considering that they encounter a unique set of challenges that the typical incarcerated person does not. At the same time, immigrants are not a monolithic group, and there are …
Immigrant threat, perception of unsafety, and political articulation of immigration and multiculturalism in European countries
A large body of work has examined the relationship between population composition and risk of victimization. Past research has also suggested that the nature of political rhetoric may have profound impacts on perceived threat, fear of crime, and moral panic. This study constitutes the first attempt to examine the relationships between the negative political articulation of both immigration and multiculturalism by extreme right-wing parties and th…
Covid-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: A temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic
Immigrant-Ethnic Activity Space (Ieas), Ex-Prisoner Concentration, and Recidivism
Prior research measures immigration by only accounting for where immigrants live. We argue that this approach misses the activity spaces of immigrants, which also impact crime but are not always located in their residential communities. The present study uses an alternative definition of immigration—immigrant-ethnic activity space (IEAS)—that accounts for both the residential location and routine activities of immigrants. Additionally, given the …
Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts
Underlying Dimensions of Racial Residential Segregation and Police-Caused Homicide of Blacks: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Core Based Statistical Areas
This work builds upon previous research to assess the associations between underlying dimensions of racial residential segregation and police-caused homicide of Black civilians. Previous scholars have observed that much of the existing work on residential segregation and police-caused homicide has used one measure of segregation, most commonly the dissimilarity index, although recent work has expanded the focus to include multiple indicators of s…
Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia
The present study provides an initial attempt to assess the impact of extremist right electoral support on racially motivated and extremist violent crime rates across Slovak regions. We transcend previous research by examining associations between national and regional elections, immigration rates, vote-shares, and violent hate crime rates utilizing temporal statistics on racially motivated and extremist violent crimes, which are linked with data…
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases
Social disorganization or defended Neighborhoods? New evidence from area-identified National Crime Victimization Survey Data
A substantial body of work has aimed to elucidate the spatial distribution of hate crimes, frequently referencing the defended neighborhood hypothesis and traditional ecological theories of crime, such as social disorganization theory. Although both theoretical frameworks recognize the importance of community characteristics, they differ in their interpretation of the underlying theoretical mechanisms. To date, however, comprehensive evaluations …
Group threat and power-differential theories as differential predictors of religion-motivated hate crimes and the construction of local hate crime statistics
Criminology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works)