Did Covid-19 Lead to an Increase in Hate Crimes Toward Chinese People in London?
Did Covid-19 Lead to an Increase in Hate Crimes Toward Chinese People in London?
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DOI：
10.1177/10439862211027994
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发表时间：
2021-07-05
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2
通讯作者：
Hansen, Kirstine
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作者：
Gray, Chelsea;Hansen, Kirstine
我们研究了被广泛认为起源于中国的新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）是否对伦敦的中国人的环境产生了负面影响，导致针对这一群体的仇恨犯罪相对于其他群体有所增加。根据大都会警察局对整个伦敦大都会区的数据，我们使用差异中的差异方法来研究在新冠肺炎大流行之前（2019年10月至12月）和之后（2020年1月至3月）的几个月里，伦敦针对中国人的仇恨犯罪相对于其他族裔群体、其他犯罪和其他时间段的情况。我们的方法利用了这样一个事实，即新冠肺炎是一个意想不到的冲击，它很快改变了犯罪的环境，并且在不同种族之间存在差异。我们认为，这种冲击可能会对中国人的态度和行为产生负面影响，但对其他种族没有影响。我们的研究结果显示，在COVID-19之后的几个月里，针对华人的仇恨犯罪有所增加，但这种增加在其他种族群体、其他非仇恨犯罪或任何其他时间段都没有出现。这让我们得出结论，新冠肺炎导致伦敦针对中国人的仇恨犯罪增加。新冠肺炎改变了人们对中国人的行为，这凸显了新冠肺炎与种族主义之间的内在联系。不幸的是，我们发现的仇恨犯罪的增加，使少数族裔群体在这一流行病期间遭受不成比例的痛苦，并继续遭受这种痛苦的方式越来越多。
We examine whether Covid-19, which is widely believed to have originated in China, negatively affected the environment for Chinese people in London leading to an increase in hate crimes toward this group relative to others. With data from the Metropolitan Police for the whole of the Metropolitan area of London, we use a difference-in-differences approach to examine what happened to hate crimes against Chinese people in London in the months before (October to December 2019) and the months after the Covid-19 pandemic (January to March 2020) relative to other ethnic groups, to other crimes, and to other time periods. Our methodology utilizes the fact that Covid-19 came as an unexpected shock, which very quickly changed the environment for crime, and did so differentially across ethnicities. We argue that this shock is likely to negatively affect attitudes and behaviors toward Chinese people, but has no effect on other ethnicities. Our results show that in the months after Covid-19, there was an increase in hate crimes against Chinese people, but this increase was not seen among the other ethnic groups, other non hate crimes, or in any other time period. This leads us to conclude that Covid-19 led to an increase in hate crimes against Chinese people in London. That Covid-19 changed behavior toward Chinese people highlights an intrinsic link between Covid-19 and racism. Unfortunately, the rise in hate crime that we identify adds to a growing list of ways in which ethnic minority groups disproportionately suffered, and continue to do so, during the pandemic.