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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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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Laurent Mucchielli - "Have acts of violence really increased in France in recent months?

20minutes.fr, 26 August 2020online Following the media coverage of a number of assaults and other incidents, elected representatives on the right have taken up the issue of insecurity, denouncing an increase in violence in the country and laxity on the part of the executive." The health crisis of the last few months, and in particular the increasing requirement to wear a mask, has led to...

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Laurent Mucchielli - "Aggressions for not wearing a mask in the Île-de-France region: a sign of a "climate of fear"". 

France Bleu Paris, by Adrien Bossard, 14 August 2020.online "Sociologist Laurent Mucchielli believes that we cannot talk about a resurgence of violence with the attacks observed in recent days in the Paris region for failure to respect the wearing of masks. In his view, these are panic reactions by people who are "anxious" about the climate in...

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