Immigration and crime in Italy between perception and reality
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21501/23394536.3108Keywords:
Crime, Immigration, Fear of crime, Prevention policies, Urban security.Abstract
The imposing immigration with which we are today is a core topic of the national and international public debate, the media and politic institutions. The number of migrants around the world continues growing rapidly in recent years, according to data published by UNCHR in 2017 arrived in Europe 178.500 people. What is implying immigration? Is the binomial immigration-crime reality or social construction? The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach about an Italian case and show the perception of citizenship in terms of immigration through analysis of opinión poll, surveys, reports and crime data published by institutions and public and private research centers. Political institutions and media have the tendency to show immigration in terms of alarm and threatens, in this way they are associated to foreigner, directly and indirectly, the concepts of crime terrorism, invasion and obstruction of justice, affecting the perception of citizenships. In the same way, the fear towards the foreigner is also reflected on the security policies that are adopted to raise crime.Downloads
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