@article{ref1,
title="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",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2009",
author="Sela-Shayovitz, R.",
volume="49",
number="6",
pages="772-787",
abstract="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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/azp037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azp037"
}