Spatial Distribution and Contextual Correlates of Racially Motivated Hate Crime

• In Event: Community Contexts of Race, Ethnicity, Victimization, and Offending

Abstract

Drawing on more than ten years of UCR hate crime data, this research investigates the spatial distribution of hate crime against different racial and ethnic group in the United States. By merging the American Community Survey and census data with the UCR data, this research also examines the contextual dynamics of racially motivated hate crime based on the perspectives of group conflict and social disorganization.

Authors

• Yan Zhang, Sam Houston State University

• Lening Zhang, Saint Francis University