Citation

Green DP, Strolovitch DZ, Wong JS. Am. J. Sociol. 1998; 104(2): 372-403.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/210042

PMID

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Abstract

This article investigates demographic and macroeconomic correlates of racially motivated anti-minority crime in New York City (1987-95). Event count models indicate that crimes directed against Asians, Latinos, and blacks are most frequent in predominantly white areas, particularly those that had experienced an in-migration of minorities. No relationship is found between rates of racially motivated crime and macroeconomic conditions, such as the rate of unemployment among non-Hispanic whites; nor does there appear to be an interaction between economic conditions and in-migration of minorities. These findings seem to parallel ethnographic accounts of "defended" white urban neighborhoods. The article concludes by discussing the empirical implications of this theoretical perspective as applied to prejudice-based crime in other contexts.