Penalty Enhancement for Hate Crimes: An Economic Analysis
This article develops an economic analysis of penalty enhancements for bias-motivated (or "hate") crimes. Our model allows potential offenders' benefits from a crime to depend on the victim's group identity, and assumes that potential victims have the opportunity to undertake socially costly victimization avoidance activities. We derive the result that a pattern of crimes disproportionately targeting an identifiable group leads to greater social harm (even when the harm to an individual victim from a bias-motivated crime is identical to that from an equivalent non--hate crime). In addition, we consider a number of other issues related to hate crime laws. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
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2004
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Authors: | Dharmapala, Dhammika ; Garoupa, Nuno |
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American Law and Economics Review. - Oxford University Press. - Vol. 6.2004, 1, p. 185-207
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