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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation / Li Gan, Roberton C. Williams III, Thomas Wiseman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gan, Li.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10463.
- NBER working paper series no. w10463
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004.
- Summary:
- We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on the optimal level of effort by potential hate crime victims to avoid being victimized, thus affecting the efficiency of government policies that encourage or discourage such effort. We discuss the implications of these results for optimal hate-crime policy, as well as for policy toward other similar crimes, such as terrorism.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2004.
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