Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2002
different groups of potential victims of crime, and assume that a potential offender's benefits from a crime depend on the group …-motivated crime is identical to that from an equivalent non-hate crime. Nonetheless, we derive the result that a pattern of crimes … link members of different groups. We also argue that those groups that are covered by hate crime statutes tend to be those …