Making Hate History

Hate Crime and Policing in America's Most Diverse City

Bibliographic Data

ID3759441
AuthorsBrian Levin (California State University, San Bernardino), Sara-Ellen Amster (National University, Costa Mesa, California)
Year2007
Volume51
Issue2
Pages319-348
Publication date2007-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764207306062
OpenAlexW2087073398
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited5

During the last 150 years, New York's remarkable diversity has been both a blessing and a challenge to its police force and its citizens. With the city more populated and diverse than ever, one might expect crime and intergroup conflict to be rampant, when in fact the opposite is true. Although New York is not quite Utopia, the New York Police Department's (NYPD) impressive multiyear effort at combating crime and hate crime in particular has created a noticeably safer and more civil city. Data show that after the state passed new legislation and the NYPD increased support for its Hate Crime Task Force, hate crime in the city dropped dramatically-an important lesson for other cities

Blessing · Computer security · Criminology · Diversity (politics) · Geography · Hate crime · Legislation · Police department · Political science · SAFER · Sociology · State (computer science) · Task force · Utopia · Violent crime · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society

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