Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks: Evidence From 7/7 and 9/11
Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks: Evidence From 7/7 and 9/11
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DOI：
10.1177/1043986214536665
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
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2
通讯作者：
Machin, Stephen
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作者：
Hanes, Emma;Machin, Stephen
本文询问2005年7月伦敦7/7恐怖袭击和2001年9月美国9/11恐怖袭击后，出于种族动机的仇恨犯罪发生了什么。有坊间和描述性的证据表明，自美国9·11恐怖袭击以来，以偏见为动机的犯罪有所增加，但对这一问题的量化研究很少。这项研究使用了英格兰四个拥有大量亚裔和阿拉伯人口的警察地区的丰富数据，为7/7和9/11对仇恨犯罪的影响提供了经验证据。我们发现，针对亚洲人和阿拉伯人的仇恨犯罪在这两起恐怖袭击后几乎立即发生，随后有所下降，但一年后仍高于袭击前的水平。我们认为，这表明恐怖袭击与随后仇恨犯罪增加之间存在显著联系，并假设媒体陷害和报道导致的态度变化可能起到连接恐怖袭击和仇恨犯罪的渠道的作用。
This article asks what happened to racially motivated hate crimes in the wake of the 7/7 terror attack that hit London in July 2005 and the 9/11 terror attack that hit the United States in September 2001. There is anecdotal and descriptive evidence of an increase in bias-motivated crimes since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, but little quantitative research on the issue. This study offers empirical evidence on the effects of 7/7 and 9/11 on hate crime using rich data from four police force areas in England with sizable Asian/Arab populations. We find significant increases in hate crimes against Asians and Arabs that occurred almost immediately in the wake of both terror attacks, which subsequently decayed, but remained at higher than pre-attack levels a year later. We argue that this demonstrates a significant link between terror attacks and subsequent increases in hate crime and hypothesize that attitudinal changes resulting from media framing and coverage may act as a conduit linking terror attacks and hate crimes.