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

有证据表明，基于宗教而针对个人的犯罪正在增加。这不仅损害了受害者的福祉，而且也损害了其社区和国家的福祉。评估刑事受害和出于偏见动机的犯罪的现有数据没有充分衡量受害者的宗教或宗教在出于偏见动机的犯罪中的作用。该项目将提供新的数据，方法是对成年人进行一次具有全国代表性的调查，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一个动机。 该项目将提供急需的信息，以协助执法部门、社区和决策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。该项目将进行一项调查，使用全国代表性的1,000名美国成年人样本，沿着几个少数宗教团体的额外样本，共计1,200名受访者。调查工具将利用原始问题沿着从现有调查中抽取的问题。该仪器将衡量个人？犯罪受害经历，特别关注宗教是否被视为犯罪者的动机以及这种经历对受害者的影响。该项目将通过附加美国的指标来增加调查数据。S.反映社区特征的人口普查，如种族组成和家庭收入中位数。 使用2010年宗教集会和成员研究将允许附加数据的宗教组成的受访社区。 将使用回归模型对调查产生的数据进行分析，预测受害风险、对受害的恐惧以及对受害的影响和反应等结果。研究结果将为宗教社会学、犯罪学和集体行动等几个社会学子领域的理论提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF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.