Response to DQ2A

Respond to the person's DQ below.  Write as if you are speaking directly to them.  Use APA format and in text citations.  Offer additional insight or offer a different view.

Stacey (2015) research uses information from the Uniform Crime Reports and a board representation composition to study the causes that contribute to report anti-Black and anti-Hispanic hate crime levels in the United States.  In contrast, it was theorized that broader hate crime definitions would result in greater levels of reported hate crime.  On the other hand, the results propose that the definition of hate crime influences the reported prevalence of anti-Hispanic hate crime, but that variation in law does not affect anti-Black hate crime once demographic and other structural characteristics are taken into account (Stacey, 2015).

Reference:

Stacey, M. (2015). The effect of law on hate crime reporting: The case of racial and ethnic

            violence. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 40(4), 879-900.