Hahn, Tania (2023) The Impact of Contextual Changes on Hate Crimes Across Different Targeted Minority Groups. Research Master thesis, Research Master.
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Abstract
An extensive body of research has documented the relationship between hate crimes and economic deprivation and immigration. Much of this research focuses on how static levels of these structural conditions affect one type of hate crime. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how changes in these structural conditions affect distinct minority groups based on the socioeconomic and symbolic threats they pose to the majority group. Using survey data collected in a representative survey (N = 12,380) among adolescents in Lower Saxony in 2019, and by merging it with official statistics on economic inequality and immigration across counties from 2015 to 2019, the study investigated self-reported hate crimes. Results provided support for the classification of minority groups based on the threats they pose into competing, dissident, and deviant groups. However, the study found that the relationship between hate crimes and changes in economic inequality and immigration was negligible. Results further indicated that individual factors such as feelings of individual or collective relative deprivation did not moderate these relationships but may explain hate crimes.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Research Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Nieuwenhuis, J.G. |
| Degree programme: | Research Master |
| Differentiation route: | Sociology [Research Master] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2023 08:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2023 08:03 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2384 |
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