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Title: Understanding and Reducing Hate Crimes in New York City
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Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: Hate crime is a rising, and long-standing, concern in New York City. The nation's largest city and one of its most diverse, New York is home to hundreds of bias offenses every year. The number of these offenses has declined far less precipitously over the past 30 years than other types of crime. This report details the scale and contours of offenses motivated by racial, ethnic, and religious bias in NYC, including data on trends over time, who is victimized and where and how, and on the types of offenders. It also discusses the city's infrastructure for dealing with these offenses and the justifications for combating hate crime as hate crime (as opposed to crime per se). Last, this paper proposes a “focused deterrence” approach for dramatically reducing hate crimes in the city. Such an approach would entail: • A zero-tolerance strategy for hate crimes, facilitated by a surge in NYPD resources • An all-of-government messaging campaign in tandem with the surge • A specific focus on identifying and treating serious mental illness • More data transparency from across the criminal justice system
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Authors: Lehman, Charles Fain
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Crime and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity
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