RT Article
T1 “Seeing” hate crime in the community: do resident perceptions of hate crime align with self-reported victimization?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 7
SP 875
OP 896
A1 Wickes, Rebecca
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/157747791X
AB Hate crimes undermine tolerance and social inclusion by conveying an “outsider” status of the victim and other group members to the broader community. Yet, limited research considers whether non-victims recognize hate crime incidents when they occur. Using census and survey data for 4,000 residents living in 145 communities, we ask whether local residents “see” hate crime when it happens in their neighborhood and whether the neighborhood context influences the association between residents’ perceptions of hate crime and self-reported hate victimization. We find that residents’ perceptions are positively related to victim self-reports; however, this relationship weakens in ethnically diverse and disadvantaged areas. This suggests that residents’ perceptions of hate crime may be more dependent upon the community context than non-hate crimes.
K1 Hate crime
K1 Ethnic diversity
K1 Victimization
K1 Disadvantage
K1 Vorurteilskriminalität
K1 Hasskriminalität
K1 Ethnische Diversität
K1 Studie
DO 10.1177/0011128715625079