TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - A common target: anti-Jewish hate crime in New York City communities, 1995-2010
JO  - Journal of research in crime and delinquency
A1  - Mills, Colleen E.
SP  - 643
EP  - 692
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
N2  - OBJECTIVES:There is a growing body of macro-level studies examining hate crime. These studies however largely focus on ethnoracial hate crime, leading to a relative dearth of research investigating the etiology of anti-Jewish hate crime. The current study seeks to fill this gap by conducting a community-level analysis of anti-Jewish hate crime in New York City.<br><br>METHODS:Using data from the New York Police Department?s Hate Crimes Task Force, the current study employs a series of negative binomial regressions to investigate the impact of defended neighborhoods, social disorganization, and strain variables on anti-Jewish hate crime.<br><br>RESULTS:The results show that defended neighborhoods consistently predict higher levels of anti-Jewish hate crime in White, Black, and non-White neighborhoods even when accounting for social disorganization and strain variables. <br><br>RESULTS also demonstrate that anti-Jewish crime occurs in communities that are more socially organized and with better economic conditions.<br><br>CONCLUSIONS:This study?s findings reveal Jewish victims to be a catchall target when a minority group increasingly moves into a majority area. These defended neighborhoods, and other findings have intriguing implications for both criminology?s social disorganization theory and the police and others charged with combatting bias crimes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4278
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022427820902832
ID  - ref1
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