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Title: Sexual Orientation Hate Crimes in Chicago: 1997 2006
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Publication Year: 2008
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Abstract: In the United States, hate crimes are a well-known phenomena. These crimes are committed on the basis of the victims race, ethnicity/national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. There have been several publicized and well-documented hate crimes in history. Solely looking at hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation, one immediately comes to mind: the murder of a gay man, Matthew Shepard, in 1998. As of 2004, 15% of hate crimes in the United States were motivated by a bias against certain sexual orientationsincluding gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. (Hate Crime). In Chicago, between 1996 and 2006, 375 hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation have been investigated by the Chicago Police Department. Of these, only 170 were found to be bona fide hate crimes. Proving hate crimes, however, is sometimes difficult.For this project, I decided to map the total occurrence of hate crimes in Chicago between the years of 1997 and 2006. I primarily collected this data using maps with locations of hatecrimes provided by the City of Chicago in their Annual Hate Crime reports. Although the data is not exact, I believe that one can discern a pattern from the data, as well as other data such as the number of same-sex couples living together that reported this in the 2000 Census, as well as the location of gay bars. Additionally, I wanted to know if the location of CTA Stations and Chicago Police Department stations influenced the rate of hate crimes in Chicago.
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Authors: Ryding, Alanah A.
Publisher: University of Illinois at Chicago
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Crime and Deviance, Gender
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