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Type of Document Dissertation Author Devers, Lindsey Nicole Author's Email Address lndevers@yahoo.com URN etd-11082010-111546 Title The Ethnic Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis of Arabs in Israel. Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Marc Gertz Committee Chair Nicole Piquero Committee Member Joyce Carbonell University Representative Keywords
- Arabs
- concern for crime
- intraethnic threat
- intraracial threat
- Israel
- fear of crime
- minority threat
- punitive attitudes
- social threat
- social control
- typification of crime
Date of Defense 2010-10-25 Availability unrestricted Abstract According to social threat theorists, it is the mere presence of blacks that induces a fear of crime which increases punitive attitudes and leads to the mobilization of social control. Blalock (1967) argued that social control is exerted upon minority populations that are deemed threatening. Recent work on the percent black and fear of crime has transformed this aggregate-level relationship into an individual-level measure of the presences of blacks, specifically, the racial typification of crime. The present study extends Chiricos and colleagues (2004) work on the racial typification of crime by conducting such analyses in Israel where there have historically been high ethnic tensions. The dissertation explores the relationship between the ethnic typification of crime and punitive attitudes by utilizing an Arab sample of respondents from Israel. Results indicate that the main hypothesis under examination was not supported by the regression analyses. The analyses demonstrated that concern for crime was the strongest predictor of punitive attitudes net of other control and demographic variables.Files
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