Unemployment and Right‐wing Extremist Crime*
利用德国数据检验失业与右翼极端主义犯罪的关系，发现失业率高时此类犯罪更频繁，且东西德犯罪差异主要源于失业率差异。
Abstract It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role in the occurrence of right‐wing extremist crimes (RECs). We test this hypothesis empirically using data from Germany. We find that right‐wing criminal activities occur more frequently when unemployment is high. The substantial difference in the numbers of RECs occurring in the East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for RECs, and it questions explanations based solely on the different socialization in former communist East Germany and the liberal West German states.