Ryan, Matt E.; Leeson, Peter T. - In: International Review of Law and Economics 31 (2011) 4, pp. 256-262
This paper is the first to investigate the relationship between hate groups and hate crime empirically. We do so using panel data for the U.S. states between 2002 and 2008. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find little evidence that hate groups are associated with hate crime in the United...