International terror attacks and local out-group hate crime

Ivandic, Ria, Kirchmaier, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0002-8938-2206 and Machin, Stephen ORCID: 0009-0004-8130-2701 (2024) International terror attacks and local out-group hate crime. Journal of Law and Economics, 67 (3). 589 - 610. ISSN 0022-2186

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Abstract

This paper studies the effects of international terror attacks on out-group hate crimes committed against Muslims in a local setting. Event studies based on rich administrative data from the Greater Manchester Police on 10 terror attacks reveal an immediate big spike in Islamophobic hate crimes and hate-based incidents when an attack occurs. In subsequent days, the hate crime incidence is magnified by real-time media reports. The attacks create an attitudinal shock that leads residents to perceive local minority groups that share the religion of the attack’s perpetrators as an out-group threat. The overall conclusion is that, even when they reside in places far from where jihadi terror attacks take place, local Muslim populations face a media-magnified likelihood of hate-based victimization. But only those incidents salient to resident populations, because of where they happen or because of the media’s magnification of them, impact the incidence of local hate crimes.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jle/current
Additional Information:	© 2024 by The University of Chicago
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	K Law H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2024 16:06
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2025 06:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122123

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