Laurent Mucchielli - "What do we really know about the link between immigration and delinquency?

Laurent Mucchielli and Barbara Joannon for Désinfox-Migrations, Institut Convergences Migrations, 29 September 2020.en ligne "Questioned about a number of incidents of violence and aggression that occurred over the summer, Gérald Darmanin declared in July that "we must put an end to the ensauvagement of part of society". More than just a word, the concept of "ensauvagement" was theorised by criminologist Xavier...

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Farida Souiah - "Will Algeria change its military doctrine?

France Culture, programme "Les enjeux internationaux" hosted by Julien Gacon.29 September 2020.link "Subject to a referendum on 1 November, the new Algerian Constitution was recently passed by Parliament. One of the new provisions being debated is that the army will now be able to operate outside Algeria's borders. Why should this be the case? Interview with researcher Farida Souiah.

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Laurent Mucchielli - "INTERVIEW: Insecurity and media 'ensauvlement

ACRIMED, with Frédéric Lemaire, 22 September 2020.online Since the end of August, the issue of insecurity has once again hit the headlines. On the agenda: the dramatisation of news stories, statistics used indiscriminately, biased polls, etc. We take a look at this media treatment with Laurent Mucchielli, sociologist and specialist in...

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Laurent Mucchielli - "Once again, we're going to see crime figures used as a tool".

After talking about "ensauvagement", Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced that he is going to publish crime figures every month. A Sarkozy-style strategy that raises a number of questions about our relationship with reality.Regards.fr, Interview by Loïc Le Clerc, 8 September 2020.en ligne See the article "Sécurité : Gérald...

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Laurent Mucchielli - "Étampes: cameras, a miracle cure for crime?

Le Parisien.fr, interview by Florian Garcia, 09/09/2020 Two months after taking office, the mayor of Étampes is investing €400,000 in upgrading his CCTV cameras and acquiring new models capable of detecting heat sources[...]" [...]. [...] CCTV is a way of playing politics. It's like saying vote for...

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Laurent Mucchielli - "INTERVIEW. Wild rodeos: "We're treating the symptom, not the cause"".

Ouest France, 7 September 2020online Wild rodeos are not a new phenomenon. A specialist in delinquency, sociologist Laurent Mucchielli, director of research at the CNRS's Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie (University of Aix-Marseille) and author of La France telle qu'elle est, pour en finir avec la complainte nationaliste (Fayard, March 2020), explains that a more "preventive" approach...

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