Check out this new article published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. The article uses Chile as a case study to examine trends of hate crime between 2015 and 2019 comparing longitudinal data from victimization surveys, registers of community organizations and mainstream media reports.
The results allow us to discuss opportunities and limitations of triangulating different data sources to capture trends of hate crime. The study results show a general increase in trends of hate crimes in Chile between 2015 and 2019, but important differences between data sources and victim groups (we consider LGBTI, migrant and Indigenous victims). The study concludes that the qualitative difference in the size of variation across different sources is explained by different biases of the data, which we review.
This article illustrates the importance of disaggregating hate crimes because trends, correlates and key predictors often differ depending on the type of hate crime and the source of data.