TY - JOUR
T1 - A Common Target
T2 - Anti-Jewish Hate Crime in New York City Communities, 1995-2010
AU - Mills, Colleen E.
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank Joshua Freilich for his invaluable guidance and support throughout this project, as well as Jeremy Porter, Amy Adamczyk, Jack McDevitt, and Peter Simi for reviewing earlier drafts of this article when it was part of my doctoral dissertation. I would like to thank Kevin Wolff for his assistance as well. I also thank Lieutenant Tara Coffey of the New York Police Department’s Office of Management Analysis & Planning, as well as Christopher Fisher and Rebecca Neusteter, for handling all of my data needs and questions. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
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. 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. 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. Results also demonstrate that anti-Jewish crime occurs in communities that are more socially organized and with better economic conditions. 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.
AB - 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. 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. 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. Results also demonstrate that anti-Jewish crime occurs in communities that are more socially organized and with better economic conditions. 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.
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U2 - 10.1177/0022427820902832
DO - 10.1177/0022427820902832
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079174975
SN - 0022-4278
VL - 57
SP - 643
EP - 692
JO - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
JF - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
IS - 6
ER -