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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Scandinavian Journal of Economics |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0347-0520 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Number | 2 |
| Page Range | 260 - 285 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Abstract Text | It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role in the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes (RECs). We test this hypothesis empirically using data from Germany. We find that right-wing criminal activities occur more frequently when unemployment is high. The substantial difference in the numbers of RECs occurring in the East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for RECs, and it questions explanations based solely on the different socialization in former communist East Germany and the liberal West German states |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01648.x |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:4193 |
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| Additional Information | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |