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SUMMARY:The long arm of the country of origin? Evaluating the cultural bag
 gage hypothesis on inter-ethnic differences in youth violence - Professor 
 Clemens Kroneberg\, University of Cologne
DTSTART:20230706T100000Z
DTEND:20230706T113000Z
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CONTACT:R Greene
DESCRIPTION:Heightened rates of violent offending among ethnic minorities 
 are a highly controversial topic in many countries. An influential argumen
 t claims that certain minority groups are overrepresented among violent of
 fenders because of the history and culture of violence in their countries 
 of origin. In this article\, we test this cultural baggage hypothesis base
 d on data from a four-year longitudinal network study of more than 4000 ad
 olescents from an ethnically diverse sample of schools in Germany. Followi
 ng research on adolescent development and bullying\, we apply stochastic a
 ctor-oriented network models to study the co-evolution of students’ frie
 ndship networks and their use of physical violence. Building on work on cu
 lture in economics (Fernández 2008\, 2011)\, we simultaneously ask to wha
 t extent inter-ethnic differences in violence reflect cultural differences
  between countries of origin. To this end\, we examine a wide range of cou
 ntry-of-origin characteristics\, such as a country’s history of civil wa
 r (Miguel\, Saiegh\, and Satyanath 2008)\, prevalence of physical punishme
 nt by teachers or parents\, or negative reciprocity (Cao\, Enke\, Falk\, e
 t al. 2021). Our findings suggest that peer processes such as social influ
 ence or homophily do not differ between minority and majority students and
  do not account for the heightened rate of violent offending among minorit
 y boys. Most importantly\, none of the country-level indicators bears a re
 lationship with violent offending. Our results contradict the cultural bag
 gage hypothesis and have important implications for social science theorie
 s of violence.
LOCATION:Seminar room\, Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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