International terror attacks and local out-group hate crime

Ivandic, Ria, Kirchmaier, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0002-8938-2206 and Machin, Stephen (2024) International terror attacks and local out-group hate crime. Journal of Law and Economics. ISSN 0022-2186 (In Press)

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This paper studies the effects of international terror attacks on out-group hate crimes committed against Muslims in a local setting. Event studies of ten terror attacks based upon rich administrative data from Greater Manchester reveal an immediate big spike up in Islamophobic hate crimes and incidents when an attack occurs. In subsequent days, hate crime incidence becomes amplified by real-time media. The attacks create an attitudinal shock in resident populations leading them to perceive 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 away from where jihadi terror attacks take place, local Muslim populations face a media magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization. But it is only those incidents that are salient to local resident populations, because of where they happen or due to the media magnification, that impact local hate crime.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jle/current
Additional Information:	© 2024 University of Chicago Press
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance Economics
Subjects:	K Law H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2024 16:06
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2024 08:50
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122123

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