PMID- 32070190
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211124
LR  - 20211124
IS  - 1552-6518 (Electronic)
IS  - 0886-2605 (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 23-24
DP  - 2021 Dec
TI  - Understanding Public Attitudes to Hate: Developing and Testing a U.K. Version of 
      the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale.
PG  - NP13365-NP13390
LID - 10.1177/0886260520906188 [doi]
AB  - Against the backdrop of an increase in reported hate crimes, we present the 
      development of a U.K.-focussed instrument designed to evaluate the nature of 
      public beliefs about hate crime, legislation, offenders and victims. In Study 1, 
      438 participants completed an Anglicized version of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale 
      (HCBS). Factor analyses revealed three subfactors: Denial (high scores represent 
      a denial of hate crime severity and need for legislation), Compassion (high score 
      reflect compassion toward victims and affected communities) and Sentencing 
      (higher scores reflect more punitive attitudes). In Study 2 (N = 134) we show 
      that scores on Denial are positively associated with those on Right-Wing 
      Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), ideologies known 
      to be associated with prejudice. Compassion was negatively associated with these 
      ideologies. Mediation analyses showed that Big Five personality traits Openness 
      to Experience and Conscientiousness predicted Denial and Compassion via RWA, 
      whereas Agreeableness and Openness predicted scores via SDO, consistent with a 
      dual-process motivation model of hate crime beliefs. Results are discussed in 
      terms of the nature of hate crime beliefs and the importance of understanding 
      public attitudes which may support undesirable social norms and influence jury 
      decision making in trials of hate related offenses.
FAU - Bacon, Alison M
AU  - Bacon AM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4279-3814
AD  - University of Plymouth, UK.
FAU - May, Jon
AU  - May J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7439-9200
AD  - University of Plymouth, UK.
FAU - Charlesford, Jaysan J
AU  - Charlesford JJ
AD  - University of Plymouth, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200218
PL  - United States
TA  - J Interpers Violence
JT  - Journal of interpersonal violence
JID - 8700910
SB  - IM
MH  - Attitude
MH  - Crime
MH  - *Crime Victims
MH  - *Hate
MH  - Humans
MH  - Prejudice
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - community violence
OT  - cultural contexts
OT  - hate crimes
EDAT- 2020/02/20 06:00
MHDA- 2021/11/25 06:00
CRDT- 2020/02/20 06:00
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/11/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0886260520906188 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Interpers Violence. 2021 Dec;36(23-24):NP13365-NP13390. doi: 
      10.1177/0886260520906188. Epub 2020 Feb 18.