Social Alienation and Psychological Distress in Israeli Adolescents

Savaya, Riki; Berger, Roni; Ronen, Tamie; Roziner, Ilan

doi:10.1007/s10560-021-00786-5

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“…The social resistance theory has been tested empirically across a variety of nondominant minority groups in the United States (Factor, Williams, and Kawachi 2013c;Haddad et al 2023), Israel (Factor et al 2013b;Itskovich and Factor 2023;Savaya et al 2023), and Central and Eastern Europe (Langley et al 2021;Letki and Kukołowicz 2020), and findings show general support for its theoretical propositions. Examining the theory in the context of traffic violations, Factor et al (2013b) found that social resistance had a direct and much greater impact on non-Jewish minority drivers in Israel compared with the Jewish majority group, while for the latter, the main antecedents of delinquent behaviour were procedurally unjust treatment by the police and non-commitment to the law.…”

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“…Similar evidence of this clustering effect was shown by Haddad et al (2023), who examined the higher involvement in crashes of Black pedestrians in a US city. Social resistance has also been found to help explain the positive effect of social alienation on psychological distress and sleeping problems among minority-group adolescents (Savaya et al 2023).…”

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Subjective Obligation to Obey the Police in Diverse Societies: A Social Resistance Perspective

Factor,

Trotsky

2024

Int. ann. criminol.

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A sense of obligation to obey the police is an important predictor of public cooperation and compliance with the law. Minorities tend to feel less obligated to obey the police than the majority. Previous work based on the social resistance framework shows that the experiences that shape the lives and attitudes of minorities may encourage them to actively engage in a variety of everyday resistance acts against the majority group, which may include high-risk and delinquent behaviours. The present study tests this framework for the first time concerning the self-perceived obligation to obey the police while also considering different minority groups who experience varying levels of marginalization. We use a representative sample of about 1,100 Israelis from four minority groups – Muslims, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Jews of Ethiopian origin – along with the Jewish majority group. The results show that Muslims feel the least obligation to obey the police, followed by Jews of Ethiopian origin. Social resistance was negatively related to the self-perceived obligation to obey the police among Muslims and ultra-Orthodox Jews while controlling for demographic characteristics and previous theoretical explanations, namely procedural justice, self-help and anger.

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Subjective Obligation to Obey the Police in Diverse Societies: A Social Resistance Perspective

Factor,

Trotsky

2024

Int. ann. criminol.

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Economic inequality and crime: The role of social resistance

Itskovich

Factor

2023

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Criminal Behaviors Among Minorities: A Social Resistance Perspective

Factor

2024

Race and Justice

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The social resistance framework offers an explanation for high-risk and criminal behaviors among non-dominant minority groups. The study explores the generalizability of the framework to minority groups which are marginalized for different reasons, such as immigration, and deep historical national conflicts, and across several criminal behaviors, by surveying a representative sample of more than 1,000 participants from Israel's majority population and four minority groups—Muslims, Jews of Ethiopian origin, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and ultra-Orthodox Jews. Negative binomial regressions show that social resistance is positively associated with criminal behaviors, controlling for exposure, demographic characteristics, and previous explanations. Additionally, both levels of social resistance and its association with criminal behaviors vary between the different non-dominant minority groups. The study supports the premises of the framework, showing that social resistance plays a role in criminal behaviors among minority groups which are marginalized for different historical reasons.

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Social Alienation and Psychological Distress in Israeli Adolescents

Cited by 4 publications

References 104 publications

Subjective Obligation to Obey the Police in Diverse Societies: A Social Resistance Perspective

Subjective Obligation to Obey the Police in Diverse Societies: A Social Resistance Perspective

Economic inequality and crime: The role of social resistance

Criminal Behaviors Among Minorities: A Social Resistance Perspective

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