TY - JOUR
T1 - Neighborhood-level LGBT hate crimes and bullying among sexual minority youths
T2 - A geospatial analysis
AU - Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.
AU - Duncan, Dustin
AU - Johnson, Renee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Springer Publishing Company.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The goal of this study was to evaluate a novel measure of environmental risk factors for bullying among sexual minority youths. Data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) assault hate crimes were obtained from police records, geocoded, and then linked to individual-level data on bullying and sexual orientation from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey Geospatial Dataset (N = 1,292; 108 sexual minorities). Results indicated that sexual minority youths who reported relational and electronic bullying were more likely to reside in neighborhoods with higher LGBT assault hate crime rates. There was no association between LGBT assault hate crimes and bullying among heterosexual youths, providing evidence for specificity to sexual minority youth. Moreover, no relationships were observed between sexual minority bullying and neighborhood-level violent and property crimes, indicating that the results were specific to LGBT assault hate crimes.
AB - The goal of this study was to evaluate a novel measure of environmental risk factors for bullying among sexual minority youths. Data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) assault hate crimes were obtained from police records, geocoded, and then linked to individual-level data on bullying and sexual orientation from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey Geospatial Dataset (N = 1,292; 108 sexual minorities). Results indicated that sexual minority youths who reported relational and electronic bullying were more likely to reside in neighborhoods with higher LGBT assault hate crime rates. There was no association between LGBT assault hate crimes and bullying among heterosexual youths, providing evidence for specificity to sexual minority youth. Moreover, no relationships were observed between sexual minority bullying and neighborhood-level violent and property crimes, indicating that the results were specific to LGBT assault hate crimes.
KW - Bullying
KW - Community-level determinants of youth violence
KW - Hate crimes
KW - Sexual orientation
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U2 - 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-13-00166
DO - 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-13-00166
M3 - Article
C2 - 26160063
AN - SCOPUS:84937688245
SN - 0886-6708
VL - 30
SP - 663
EP - 675
JO - Violence and victims
JF - Violence and victims
IS - 4
ER -