RT Article
T1 A profile of race-bias hate crime in Los Angeles county
JF Western criminology review
VO 2
IS 2
A1 Umemoto, Karen
A2 Mikami, C. Kimi
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639735852
AB This article presents a descriptive profile of race-bias hate crimes in Los Angeles County using primarily law enforcement data collected during 1994-1997. Geographic information systems technology is used to map 1,837 reported bias incidents. Maps are created to locate clusters where hate crimes occur in relatively high density. Interviews and archival research were conducted in two "cluster" areas. Findings include the location of clusters and the racial characteristics of victims and suspects involved in the incidents located within clusters. While previous research has shown that hate crimes are usually perpetrated by individuals who are not members of organized hate groups, this preliminary study suggests we may find more frequent membership of perpetrators in gangs where hate crimes cluster. Related to this, there is strong evidence of race-bias hate crime among racial minority group-based gangs in which the major motive is not the defense of territorial boundaries against other gangs, but hatred towards a group defined by racial identification regardless of any gang-related territorial threat. The article concludes with a discussion of the uses of hate crime data in the study of race relations and outlines directions for future research.
K1 Hassverbrechen
K1 Kriminalgeographie
K1 Rassenbezug
K1 Hasskriminalität
K1 GIS
K1 Hate crime
K1 Race relations
K1 Crime Mapping
K1 Spatial Analysis
K1 Usa
K1 Los Angeles