On the effect of the New Year's Eve sexual assaults on anti-refugee violence

A rejoinder to Schwitter and Liebe (2023)

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ID2235018
AuthorsA Frey (0000-0002-5044-1432, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science , Oxford OX1 1JD , UK, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume39
Issue6
Pages1011-1017
Publication date2023-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jcad050
OpenAlexW4386715071
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

In their comment on my 2020 ESR article, Schwitter and Liebe suggest that the increase in anti-refugee attacks following the 2015 New Year's Eve sexual assaults (NYE) could be due to a simultaneous broadening of the German Federal Criminal Police Office definition of anti-refugee violence. I address Schwitter and Liebe's concerns by (i) removing attacks that were included because of the new definition and (ii) restricting the analysis to attacks that were sourced from non-governmental sources. In both cases, the NYE event continues to have a profound effect on anti-refugee attacks, but the revised estimates are smaller than those reported in the original study: for example, in this analysis, the probability of an attack more than doubles in the first week of January 2016, as opposed to tripling in the original study. In line with the original findings, the impact of the NYE event is also more pronounced in districts with low prior levels of anti-refugee hostility

Criminology · Event (particle physics) · German · Hostility · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Refugee · Sexual assault · Sexual violence · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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