British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on June 12, 2009
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azp037
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azp037 (2009)
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Social Control in the Face Of Security and Minority Threats
The Effects of Terrorism, Minority Threat and Economic Crisis on the Law Enforcement System in Israel
* Dr, Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Yellin College; ron15r{at}netvision.net.il.
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This study focuses on a combination of security, minority and economic threats that occurred concurrently during the Second Intifada in Israel and their impact on social control. The Israeli situation provides a unique opportunity for implementing the natural experiment approach. This study was based on an interrupted time-series analysis of a restricted time period, namely 1995–2005. ARMA models were used to examine the effects of Intifada period, terrorist attacks, unemployment rates and ethnic origin on pre-trial detention rates. The findings support the minority threat hypothesis. A strong and statistically significant interaction effect was found between the Second Intifada and ethnic origin: pre-trial detentions of Arabs increased during the Intifada and were higher than those of Jews. The results partially support the economic threat hypothesis.
Key Words: terrorism • economic threat • minority threat • pre-trial detention