Collaborative Research: Religion-Related Bias Victimization: Addressing a Blind-Spot

有证据表明，针对个人宗教信仰的犯罪正在上升。这不仅损害了受害者的福祉，也损害了他们所在社区和国家的福祉。评估犯罪受害和偏见动机犯罪的现有数据没有充分衡量受害者的宗教信仰或宗教在偏见动机犯罪中的作用。该项目将通过对成年人进行具有全国代表性的调查来提供新的数据，以评估他们的受害经历，以及他们是否认为宗教偏见是他们受害的动机。该项目将提供急需的信息，协助执法部门、社区和政策制定者更好地预防与宗教有关的犯罪，并为此类犯罪的受害者提供服务。该项目将在全国范围内对1000名美国成年人进行抽样调查，同时对几个少数宗教团体进行抽样调查，总共有1200名额外的受访者。调查工具将利用原始问题以及从现有调查中得出的问题。该工具将测量个人的犯罪受害经历，特别关注宗教是否被认为是罪犯的动机，以及这种经历对受害者的影响。该项目将通过附加反映种族构成和家庭收入中位数等社区特征的美国人口普查指标来增加调查数据。使用2010年宗教集会和成员研究将允许附加有关被调查社区宗教组成的数据。本次调查产生的数据将使用回归模型进行分析，预测结果，如受害的风险、对受害的恐惧以及受害的影响和反应。研究结果将为几个社会学子领域的理论提供信息，包括宗教社会学、犯罪学和集体行动。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Evidence suggests that crimes targeting individuals based on their religion are on the rise. This harms not only the well-being of victims, but also the well-being of their communities and the nation. Existing data assessing criminal victimization and bias-motivated crimes do not adequately measure the religion of victims or the role of religion in bias-motivated crimes. This project will provide new data by conducting a nationally representative survey of adults to assess their experiences with victimization and whether they perceived that religious bias was a motivator for their being victimized. This project will provide much-needed information to assist law enforcement, communities, and policy-makers in better preventing religion-related crimes and serving the victims of such crimes. The project will field a survey using a nationally representative sample of 1,000 US adults along with oversamples of several minority religious groups totaling 1,200 additional respondents. The survey instrument will utilize both original questions along with questions drawn from existing surveys. The instrument will measure individuals' experiences with criminal victimization with a specific interest in whether religion was perceived to be a motivator for the offender(s) and the impact of the experience on the victim. The project will augment the survey data by attaching indicators from the U. S. Census that reflect community characteristics such as racial composition and median household income. Use of the 2010 Religious Congregations and Membership Study will permit attaching data on the religious composition of respondent neighborhoods. The data generated from this survey will be analyzed using regression models predicting outcomes such as the risk of victimization, fears of victimization, and the impact and responses to victimization. Findings will inform theories in several sociological subfields including the sociology of religion, criminology and collective action.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.