Kyra Hanemaaijer
kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social
Kyra Hanemaaijer
@kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Gothenburg (previously: PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam & Tinbergen Institute). Interested in economics of crime, discrimination, gender, and labour economics.
www.kyrahanemaaijer.com
Main findings:
🔹No sig. changes in police & prosecutor decisions
🔹Judges handed out 60% longer sentences to Moroccan defendants (79% conditional on prison, ~3 months)
🔹Increased sentence length mirrored media intensity & duration linking Moroccan community to crime📺⚖️ [5/7]
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
🔹Shock = assassination of defense attorney Derk Wiersum in Sep 2019
🔹Wiersum defended a key witness in major case against "Mocro mafia", a Moroccan-Dutch led drug trafficking organization
🔹Event sparked extensive media attention, highlighting individuals of Moroc descent [4/7]
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
🔹Data: Admin data from Statistics Netherlands on all stages of the criminal justice system, incl. appeals, immigration background (1st to 3rd gen), and labor market outcomes.
🔹Method: Dif-in-dif design comparing minority vs. non-minority suspects before/after the shock. [3/7]
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM