The team of the research project “When the Law is Silent: Hate Crime Prosecution and Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement Agencies (SILAW)” – one of the winners of the CIVICA’s first call for collaborative research proposals – will present the preliminary results of research. We will also hear from a series of speakers from Romania, Bulgaria and Germany. The presentation will include a comparison of the legislative frameworks dedicated to fighting antisemitism in the three countries.
The preliminary results of a collective paper will be presented by Andreea Stancea, PhD candidate, SNSPA, co-author, on behalf of the two other co-authors – prof. Andrei Muraru and Oana Mihalache.
Details: the paper was accepted at the 6th edition of the International Conference on Peace and Conflict Management, that will take place on 21st & 22nd of October in Oxford, UK.
The collaborative research projects are funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, under the CIVICA Research project.
The SILAW research project is coordinated by prof. Andrei Muraru (SNSPA), together with three other team members Prof. Nadège Ragaru (Research Professor, Sciences Po Paris), Prof. Constantin Iordachi (Professor of History at the Central European University, Vienna) and Oana Mihalache, PhD candidate (SNSPA). Andreea Stancea is part of the team as a research coordinator of the team in Bucharest who conducted the empirical phase of the research.
The presentation includes the results of the original survey developed to collect data among Romanian prosecutors (who handled files related to anti-Semitic crimes), and the aim of the research is to investigate the prosecution of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Romania in order to identify different ways in which implicit bias among the police and the judiciary can reveal either an undetected antisemitism or a spike in anti-Semitic violence. The main purpose was to test the hypothesis of a link between the implicit prejudices they would have and the application of the law in cases of anti-Semitism.
* For those who want to learn more about the project, please send an e-mail to silaw@snspa.ro.
