Criminal law and Criminology Studies

Criminological study of hate crimes against foreign immigrants

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Behzad Razavi Fard 1
Mahdi Hamooleh 2

1 Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

2 MA. in Criminal Law & Criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jqclcs.2026.390169.1977
Abstract
Committing hate crimes as a violent act and intimidation against immigrants as one of the vulnerable groups, often due to their racial, national and ethnic identity, has always had a wide impact on the social relations of these groups. The problem of this research is the criminological investigation of hate-based crimes with an emphasis on immigrants, and from a criminological approach, it will explain the theories, approaches and causes and factors of the formation of roots leading to hatred. The research method will be descriptive-analytical with a qualitative approach, combined with in-depth (qualitative) interviews and organized through thematic analysis of the data, coding, and its interpretation to the point of theoretical saturation. In the analysis of the findings, various psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political causes and factors, each according to the current conditions and situation, can play a role as a stimulus and catalyst in the creation of crimes based on hatred towards immigrants, and the roots of its formation according to Related theories such as Agnew's general strain and Perry's structural action are analyzed. The continuous continuation of these crimes in the social structure can play a key role in the dual continuity of us and them in the immigrants and put them on the path of social disintegration, isolation and ostracism. These waves have never subsided in a world where hatred has become a part of people's daily life towards immigrants, and with each wave it can create turbulence in them.

Keywords

Discrimination
Prejudice
Hate crimes
Criminology
Foreign Immigrants
Hatred
 
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