Zaykowski Heather
Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark 19716, USA.
Violence Vict. 2010;25(3):378-94. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.3.378.
This study examines the influence of the victim's race in reporting hate crimes to the police. Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) concentrated incident-level files (1992-2005) were used to (a) analyze how the victim's race influences the likelihood of reporting and (b) explore differences between reporting racial hate crimes and non-racial hate crimes. Controlling for other demographic and incident characteristics, the results indicate that minority victimizations are less likely to be reported for both racial and nonracial hate crimes; however, the magnitude of this effect was greater for racial hate crimes. Failure to report to the police has serious consequences for the victim and the criminal justice system. Implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
本研究考察了受害者种族对向警方报告仇恨犯罪的影响。利用来自全国犯罪受害情况调查（NCVS）集中事件层级档案（1992 - 2005年）的数据来（a）分析受害者种族如何影响报告的可能性，以及（b）探究报告种族仇恨犯罪与非种族仇恨犯罪之间的差异。在控制了其他人口统计学和事件特征后，结果表明，无论是种族仇恨犯罪还是非种族仇恨犯罪，少数群体受害者遭受的侵害被报告的可能性较低；然而，这种影响在种族仇恨犯罪中更为显著。不向警方报告对受害者和刑事司法系统都有严重后果。文中还讨论了相关影响及对进一步研究的建议。
