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Title: Hatred Simmering in the Melting Pot: Hate Crime in New York City, 1995-2010

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Hate crime proves prevalent in American society, inflicting a variety of harms on victims as well as society at large. Scholars have long sought to understand the motivations and conditions behind hate crime offending. Green and his colleagues conducted the classic neighborhood studies examining the conditions that foster hate crime (Green, Glaser, & Rich, 1998; Green, Strolovich, & Wong, 1998; Green, Strolovitch, Wong, & Bailey). Using data from the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, the current study replicates and extends Green's neighborhood studies by investigating hate crime in New York City from 1995 to 2010. This study investigates whether Green, Strolovitch, & Wong’s (1998) findings hold true over an extended period of time in New York City, during which the city underwent major demographic changes. Using a group conflict framework (Blalock, 1967; Tolnay & Beck, 1995), the current study extends prior work by investigating the impact of various "threats, including defended neighborhoods as well as economic, political, terrorist, and gay threat, on different types of anti-minority hate crime, including those against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities as well as anti-gay hate crime. The current study also integrates criminological frameworks, testing social disorganization and strain to explain hate crime. Using negative binomial regression . . .

Url: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2189/

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Authors: Mills, Colleen, E

Institution: The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Department: Criminal Justice

Advisor: Joshua D. Freilich

Degree: Ph.D.

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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Other

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