Amish Victimization and Offending: A Rural Subculture's Experiences and Responses to Crime and Justice
In: Southern Rural Sociology, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 226-251
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In: Southern Rural Sociology, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 226-251
In: Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 43-56
ISSN: 1537-7946
In: Deviant behavior: an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 115-148
ISSN: 1521-0456
In: Race and Justice: RAJ, Volume 2, Issue 3, p. 203-219
ISSN: 2153-3687
Research on hate crime has focused primarily on law making, law enforcement, and victimization aspects. Few researchers have studied hate crime prosecutions even though this is an important element in such cases. This study uses data from the National Prosecutors Survey of 2001 to predict the likelihood of hate crime prosecutions. Given the data set is a census of prosecutors, it was necessary to add 10 new variables to the data based on the presence and absence of state hate crime laws and their characteristics. The data were subjected to logistic regression, and it was determined that the three strongest predictors of whether prosecutors pursue hate crime are the presence of (a) race, ethnicity, and religion as protected groups in state hate crime law, (b) sexual orientation as a protected status within state law, (c) the presence of an institutional vandalism provision in state-level hate crime law, and (d) if the prosecutor's office assigned staff to handle community-related activities. The findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.