The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 Table 2-Linear regression analysis results The regression output confirms that: 1- Controlling for the fact that men are more likely to be violent, the bigger the number of stateless persons in the family, the more likely the violence. 2- Fear from checkpoints and low trust in the State also increase the likelihood of violence. 3- Low access to resources also encourages stateless persons to resort to fraudulent coping mechanisms such as using a friend’s ID to pass a checkpoint or get access to a hospital, which are also more likely to encourage crime or violent behaviour. These results imply that the current status quo is breeding discrimination, alienation, and violence. The higher the number of stateless persons in the family, the higher the marginalisation and sense of deprivation of basic rights, the bigger the temptation for fraudulent behaviour as coping mechanism (such as use of false ID), and the greater the likelihood of crime and violence. The explanation goes as follows. Firstly, discrimination against one’s in-group leads to increased marginalisation. In other words, when there are Lebanese nationals within the family, the sentiment of discrimination is moderated and the effect of deprivation is reduced. Secondly, mobility problems and lower trust in the State (mainly due to lack of access to public services) increase the likelihood of violence. Thirdly, resort to fraudulent coping mechanisms in order to make up for lack of access to services (such as using a friend’s ID to get access to a hospital or pass a checkpoint) is likely to socialise people into irregular and later criminal or violent behaviour. This last point is in line with Gottfredson and Hirshi’s argument that individuals lacking self-control 43