Hate Crimes: An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Legislation Open Access

Abstract

Abstract
Hate Crimes: An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Legislation
This paper investigates the impact of hate crime legislation on both the number of hate crime
groups and the number of hate crimes committed per state per year. Through an empirical
analysis, it is shown that hate crime legislation is not associated with hate and hate crimes
committed; therefore, contributing to the open debate on whether or not hate crime
legislation is warranted.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1.
A Background on Hate Crimes

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1.1
Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2
Legislation..................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.1
A Background on Hate Crime Legislation ............................................................................ 5
1.2.2
Federal Hate Crime Statutes ................................................................................................. 6
1.3
Debate ........................................................................................................................................... 8
2
Data ...................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.1
Hate Crime Legislation ................................................................................................................. 9
2.2
Number of Hate Groups .............................................................................................................. 10
2.3
Number of Hate Crimes Committed ............................................................................................ 11
3
Analysis .............................................................................................................................................. 13
4
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 18
References .................................................................................................................................................. 21
Chart 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
Chart 2 ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
Table 1 ........................................................................................................................................................ 24
Table 2 ........................................................................................................................................................ 25
Table 3 ........................................................................................................................................................ 28
Appendix A ................................................................................................................................................. 38
Appendix B.................................................................................................................................................. 45

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School	Emory College
Department	Economics
Degree	BBA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Law Sociology, Criminology and Penology Economics, General
Keyword	hate penalty legislation enhancement crime empirical
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Mialon, Hugo M, Emory University
Committee Members	Burdette, Allison, Emory University Francis, Andrew, Emory University

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