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3 Just. Rsch. & Pol'y 1 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/jcerhadp3 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 HATE CRIME REPORTING: UNDERSTANDING POLICE OFFICER PERCEPTIONS, DEPARTMENTAL PROTOCOL, AND THE ROLE OF THE VICTIM IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A LOVE CRIME? Jennifer M. Balboni Jack McDevitt Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research Northeastern University 0 Abstract Due to sporadic and often perfunctory compliance with the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, official data on hate crime currently tell us little about the prevalence of hate crime nationally. Reasons for this include lack of departmental infrastructure to support accurate reporting, lack of training, officer disincentives to accurately report, and, perhaps most importantly, hesitation on the part of victims to involve law enforcement in these matters. Using a survey of law enforcement officers from a stratified national sample, as well as interviews with advocacy and human rights professionals, this article will discuss all of these factors and their impact on hate crime reporting. Suggestions for improvement involve working on police/minority group relations, as well as building appropriate departmental infrastructure. This project wasfunded through the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Grant #98-BJ-CX -K010. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the funding source. The authors w ish to thank Susan Bennett and Amy Farrell, both at Northeastern, as well as Joan Weiss, Stan O rchowsky, and Lisa Walbolt at the Justice Research and Statistics Association, Washington D.C., for their insight throughout the project. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Society of Criminology A nnual Meeting in Toronto, 1999. Please direct comments to: Jennifer Balboni, The Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research, 400 Churchill Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115. JUSTICE RESEARCH AND POLICY, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001 © Justice Research and Statistics Association

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