Migration, Culture, Conflict, Crime And Terrorism (Advances in Criminology) (Advances in Criminology)

248 Pages·2006·1.16 MB·English

by  Joshua D. Freilich

MIGRATION, CULTURE CONFLICT,
CRIME AND TERRORISM
Advances in Criminology
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Migration, Culture Confl ict,
Crime and Terrorism
Edited by
JOSHUA D. FREILICH
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA
and
ROB T. GUERETTE
Florida International University, USA
© Joshua D. Freilich and Rob T. Guerette 2006
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Migration, culture confl ict, crime and terrorism. -
(Advances in criminology)
1.Emigration and immigration - Social aspects 2.Immigrants
- Cultural assimilation 3.Immigrants - Crimes against
4.Immigrants - Crimes against - Prevention 5.Terrorism
6.Marginality, Social
I.Freilich, Joshua D. II.Guerette, Rob T.
364'.086912
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Migration, culture confl ict, crime and terrorism / edited by Joshua D. Freilich and Rob
T. Guerette.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-2650-4
1. Crime--Social aspects. 2. Terrorism--Social aspects. 3. Emigration and
immigration--Social aspects. 4. Immigrants--Social conditions. 5. Alien criminals. 6.
Culture confl ict. 7. Crime--Religious aspects. I. Freilich, Joshua D. II. Guerette, Rob
T.
HV6181.M54 2006
304.8--dc22
2006005842
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-2650-3
ISBN-10: 0 7546 2650 4
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
About the Authors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Joshua D. Freilich and Rob T. Guerette
PART I Migration, Religion, Culture and Terrorism 11
1 Terrorism Rediscovered: The Issue of Politically Inspired Criminality 13
Hans-Heiner Kühne
2 Culture or Confl ict? Migration, Culture Confl ict and Terrorism 21
Roland Eckert
3 The 21st-Century Kulturkampf: Fundamentalist Islam Against
Occidental Culture 27
Shlomo Giora Shoham
4 Immigration, Security and Civil Liberties Post 9/11: A Comparison
of American, Australian and Canadian Legislative and Policy Changes 49
Joshua D. Freilich, Matthew R. Opesso and Graeme R. Newman
PART II Migration and Offending Issues 71
5 Religiosity and Crime: Attitudes Towards Violence and Delinquent
Behavior among Young Christians and Muslims in Germany 73
Katrin Brettfeld and Peter Wetzels
6 Immigration and Juvenile Delinquency in Germany 89
Kerstin Reich
7 The Prison Situation of Foreigners in Japan 103
Koichi Miyazawa and Philipp Osten
vi Migration, Culture Confl ict, Crime and Terrorism
8 Media, Evil and Society: Media Use and its Impacts on Crime
Perception, Sentencing Attitudes and Crime Policy in Germany 109
Christian Pfeiffer, Michael Windzio and Matthias Kleimann
PART III Organized Crime, Traffi cking and Refugees 133
9 The United Nations Global Program Against Traffi cking in Human
Beings: Results from Phase I of “Coalitions Against Traffi cking in
Human Beings in the Philippines” 135
Alexis A. Aronowitz
10 Transnational Organized Crime and Traffi cking of Human Beings 157
Fusun Sokullu-Akinci
11 Refugees and Human Rights: An International Law Perspective 171
Turgut Tarhanli
PART IV Responding to the Victimization of Migrants 183
12 Preventing Migrant Deaths: A Possible Role for Situational
Crime Prevention 185
Rob T. Guerette
13 Providing a Helping Hand to Battered Immigrant Women:
The Professionals’ Perspectives 199
Edna Erez and Linsey Britz
14 Dealing with Domestic Violence in India: A Problem-Solving Model
for Police 217
Mangai Natarajan
Index 231
List of Figures
Figure I.1 IOM model for the management of migration 5
Figure 3.1 Polar patterns of social character 32
Figure 5.1 Religiosity by migration/religion 79
Figure 5.2 Prevalence of repeated deviant behavior, and positive attitudes
towards violence by migration/religion (5 or more offences or at
least monthly drug/alcohol use) 80
Figure 5.3 Multiple linear regression of attitudes towards violence on
religiosity, and migration/religion (model 1) 81
Figure 5.4 Victimization by severe parental maltreatment in childhood by
religiosity and migration/religion 82
Figure 5.5 Multiple linear regression of attitudes towards violence on
religiosity, and migration/religion controlling for socio-economic
situation, family socialization, and sex role orientation (model 4) 83
Figure 6.1 Immigration numbers of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler), 1983–2001 90
Figure 6.2 Non-German suspects, 2002 93
Figure 6.3 Development of suspects, 1990–2002 96
Figure 6.4 Development of shoplifting, 1993–2002 97
Figure 6.5 Development of bodily injury, 1993–2002 98
Figure 8.1 Effect of private television viewing on perceived crime trends:
All crime 120
Figure 8.2 Effect of private television viewing on perceived crime trends:
Murder and robbery 120
Figure 9.1 The relationship between smuggling, traffi cking and the role
of organized criminal groups in these activities 138
Figure 12.1 Selected developments of migrant death as a problem in the US 188
Figure 12.2 Likely migrant deaths along the US and Mexico border,
1985–2000 190
Figure 12.3 Migrant deaths per 100,000 INS apprehensions, 1985–2000 191
Figure 14.1 Processing of domestic dispute and domestic violence cases at
all-women police stations in Tamil Nadu, India (The IAS model) 224
List of Tables
Table 5.1 Religion by ethnicity 77
Table 5.2 Distribution of the sample analysed (N=7,280) 77
Table 5.3 Multiple linear regression of attitudes on religiosity, and
migration/religion 81
Table 5.4 Hierarchical ordinal logistic regression of violent offences on
religiosity, and migration/religion controlling for socioeconomic
situation, family socialization, and sex role orientation (model 4) 84
Table 5.5 Odds-ratios of the effects of religiosity on indicators of deviance,
controlling for socioeconomic situation 85
Table 6.1 Foreign residents in Germany 91
Table 7.1 Convicted prisoners (non-resident foreigners) by gender
(on December 31 of each year) 105
Table 7.2 Numbers of convicted non-resident foreigner male prisoners
by nationality (on December 31 of each year) 105
Table 7.3 Newly admitted convicted prisoners who were non-resident
foreigners by nationality (per annum) 106
Table 8.1 Crime trends 1993–2003 (selected crimes) according to German
police crime statistics and respondents’ estimates 112
Table 8.2 Respondents’ assessment of trends in selected crimes for the
period 1993–2003, as percentages of all respondents 113
Table 8.3 Mean estimate of percentage change in the frequency of
selected crime over the period 1993–2003 114
Table 8.4 Crime-related programming as a proportion of all listed
programming for selected television stations and as a
proportion of all programming 115
Table 8.5 Factor analysis of media use and factor weightings 117
Table 8.6 Determinants of crime perception: Ordinal logistic regressions 118
Table 8.7 Determinants of sentencing attitudes: Ordinal logistic regressions 122
About the Authors
Aronowitz, Alexis A.: PhD, Consultant, United Nations Offi ce on Drugs and Crime
Brettfeld,Katrin:University of Hamburg, Department of Criminology
Britz, Linsey: Department of Justice Studies, Kent State University, OH, USA
Eckert, Roland: Professor of Sociology, University of Trier, Germany
Erez, Edna: LLB; PhD, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Justice Studies,
Kent State University, USA
Freilich, Joshua D.: JD; PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, New York City, NY, USA
Guerette, Rob T.: PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Florida
International University, Miami, FL, USA
Kleimann, Matthias: Criminological Research Institute in Lower Saxony, Germany
Kühne, Hans-Heiner: PhD, Professor, European and International Criminal Law,
University of Trier, Germany
Miyazawa, Koichi: Professor Emeritus for Criminal Law, Criminology and
Philosophy of Law, Keio University, Japan
Natarajan, Mangai: PhD, Professor, Sociology Department, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, New York City, NY, USA
Newman, Graeme R.: Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Criminal Justice,
University at Albany, NY, USA
Opesso, Matthew R.: Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, Widener University,
DE, USA
Osten, Philipp: Assistant Professor for Criminal Law, International Criminal Law
and German Law, Keio University, Japan