2024/08/01 by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
paper · doi:10.1086/730451
crossref issued 2024/08/01 · crossref published 2024/08/01 · crossref published-print 2024/08/01 · openalex publication_date 2024/08/01 · crossref created 2024/11/04 · crossref deposited 2024/11/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
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.