Table Of ContentMIGRATION,  CULTURE  CONFLICT,  
CRIME  AND  TERRORISM
Advances in Criminology
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Edited by Joshua D. Freilich, Graeme Newman, S. Giora Shoham 
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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
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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.
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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
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
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