The spatial concentration of bias: An examination of the community factors that influence residents’ perceptions of bias crime

摘要: Emerging scholarship indicates that bias crimes are concentrated in particular types of places. Currently, only a small number studies consider the ecological factors influence official reports crime. Results from these indicate community processes and structures associated with occurrence non-bias crime may operate differently for We use administrative survey data approximately 4000 residents living across 148 communities Brisbane, Queensland to examine drivers Using multi-level logistic regression, we household residents’ perceptions Here, focus not on structural demographics community, but also degree which cohesion influences whether or perceive as problem their community. find poverty ethnic diversity positively Further, higher levels less likely The level fully mediates impact partially effect