La inmigración y las agresiones sexuales en grupo a través de los medios de comunicación

Abstract

The current study is part of the research that seeks to examine the relationship between immigration and crime. Even though there is a lack of knowledge about the crime of group sexual assaults, the focus has been placed on immigrants as subjects who have a greater involvement in this criminal activity. The current study aims to describe the level of participation of immigrants in the crime of group sexual assaults in Spain in recent years. To this end, we examine the characteristics of 182 cases of incidents of sexual violence committed in groups recorded in the media between 2014 and 2019 in Spain. There were 194 immigrant perpetrators, from 21. The results show that the immigrant population has a proportionally higher presence in the events, especially in 2019, when they were involved in half of the group assaults found.