International terror attacks and local out-group hate crime

Ria Ivandic, Thomas Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

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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.

Keywords: international terror attacks; out-group; Islamophobic hate crime; media magnification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2024-08-31
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Published in Journal of Law and Economics, 31, August, 2024, 67(3), pp. 589 - 610. ISSN: 0022-2186

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