Military government, political control and crime: The case of Israeli Arabs

This paper deals with the different methods used to control the Israeli Ara b population during the military government (1948-1966). I have sought to e xpand the standard conceptual framework that serves most criminologists in Israel, and discuss the broader context in which the political control of t he Arab population took place. It is vital to consider this context because a significant amount of criminality among the Arab population was an outco me of the political control imposed upon it. The principal goal of the anal ysis is to clarify the ways in which the political control influenced the c riminal process, and to point out to the theoretical and empirical importan ce of the links between politics and crime, when discussing crime amongst t he Arab minority in Israel.