Racial animosity, adversary effect, and hate crime: parsing out injuries in intraracial, interracial, and race-based offenses

Although most crime in intraracial, studies suggest that interracial victimization is more injurious. This may be especially true for racially motivated offenses; however, studies of hate crime have not disaggregated which racial dyads are associated with injury, and whether they are more injurious...

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Main Author: Powers, Ráchael A. (Author)
Contributors: Socia, Kelly M.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Crime & delinquency
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Feindseligkeit
Hasskriminalität
Hate crime
Injury
NIBRS
Racial animus
Rasse
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Summary:Although most crime in intraracial, studies suggest that interracial victimization is more injurious. This may be especially true for racially motivated offenses; however, studies of hate crime have not disaggregated which racial dyads are associated with injury, and whether they are more injurious than interracial victimizations generally. Likewise, studies of interracial violence often assume a theoretical framework grounded in racial animosity, but cannot test motivation directly. Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), this study compares injuries across intraracial, interracial, and bias-motivated offenses. We find differences across racial dyad and the presence of racial animosity, however, the results are largely driven by the race of the offender. Implications for racial animosity theory, adversary effect, and hate crime literatures are discussed.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128718779566