Out-Group Threat and Xenophobic Hate Crimes
Evidence of Local Intergroup Conflict Dynamics between Immigrants and Natives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6387809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samina Riaz (0000-0002-8933-0836, University of Vienna), Sascha Riaz, Daniel Bischof (0000-0001-9400-1001, Aarhus University), Markus Wagner (0000-0002-0036-1266, University of Vienna) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1146-1161 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/726948 |
| OpenAlex | W4386026184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 51 |
This study examines the relationship between crimes attributed to immigrants and hate crimes against refugees at the local level. We argue that local crime events can lead natives to engage in vicarious retribution against uninvolved outgroup members—refugees in our setting. Our empirical analysis relies on fine-grained geocoded data on more than 9,400 hate crimes and 17,600 immigrant-attributed crime events that occurred in Germany between 2015 and 2019. Using a regression discontinuity in time design, we show that the daily probability of a hate crime against refugees rises sharply in the immediate aftermath of an immigrant-attributed crime event in a local community. Additional analyses suggest that immigrant-attributed crime acts as an emotional “trigger,” particularly in areas with strong radical-right support and recent demographic change. Our findings imply that individual commonplace crime incidents can give rise to intergroup conflict dynamics at the local level
Criminology · Group conflict · Hate crime · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Xenophobia · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |