The effects of the second Intifada,terrorist acts,and economic changes on adolescent crime rates in Israel: A research note |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Revital?Sela-ShayovitzEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Mevo Tidhar 14 St., Mevasert Zion, 90805, Israel |
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Abstract: | Designed as a field quasi-experiment, this study analyzes the differences in Jewish adolescent crime rates before and after
the inception of the second Intifada (September, 2000). Data covers the years between 1996 and 2003. The study focused on
the relationship between the number of terrorist acts, the number of deaths in these acts, economic changes, and crime rates
(murder, manslaughter, assault, mugging and robbery and property-related). The findings of the study were analyzed in terms
of current theories on the impact of social and security-related stress on adolescents. The results show that the second Intifada
has had significant effects on male adolescent crime rates. In particular, the number of terrorist acts was significantly
associated with the following offences: assault, robbery, and manslaughter. No significant differences were found for adolescent
female crime rates. Economic changes were significantly negatively related both to male adolescent crime for all the offences
studied, as well as to property-related female offences. |
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Keywords: | adolescent assault economic changes Intifada manslaughter murder property-related robbery terrorist acts |
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