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                            Funding & Awards
 Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization against Latinos
Award Information
Awardee
              Northeastern University
Award #
              2016-V3-GX-0001
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Boston, MA
Congressional District
              7
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2016
Total funding (to date)
              $558,575
Original Solicitation
              Research on Bias Crimes
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2016, $558,575)
While significant strides have been made in victimization research among immigrant and non-immigrant Latinos, the investigation of bias victimization events and bias crime within this population remains largely absent. Furthermore, the evaluation of bias victimization within the context of other forms of victimization is crucial to gain a comprehensive understanding of the scope of bias victimization, its co-occurrence with other forms of victimization, the degree to which it is disclosed and reported to formal criminal justice entities (e.g., police, courts, etc.), the impact it has on psychosocial outcomes, and what factors might play a role in bias victimization risk.

The proposed study will obtain data on bias victimization among a hard to reach population of Latino adults, across three sites in the U.S., Boston, Houston/Galveston region, and San Diego. The study aims to recruit 900 individuals (300 per site) and query participants on their experience of bias victimization as well as other forms of interpersonal victimization, disclosing and reporting of bias victimization, psychosocial outcomes, and culturally salient factors that may contribute to victimization risk (e.g., immigrant status, acculturation). Due to the current challenges in surveying this population (e.g., high use of mobile phone, expense of random digit-dialing approaches) we plan to embed methodological experiment to evaluate three methods for having participants complete the survey, in-person interview, in-person web-based response with a mobile device, remote web-based response (with participant device of choice). The aim is to determine the feasibility of these approaches, evaluate if there are differential reporting rates, and determine how these more cost-effective efforts could be used in future, larger scale surveys with this population.

Findings from this study will provide valuable information about the nature and patterns of of bias victimization among immigrant and non-immigrant Latinos, potential remedies to assist in prevention and disclosure of bias victimization, and evaluate methodological approaches to surveying this population for future violence research.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Examining Avoidance, Victimization Risk, and Perceptions of Community Safety in Latinx Communities
                  Which Latinos Experience Bias Victimization? An Examination of Acculturation, Immigrant Status, and Socio-economic Status
                  Experiences of Victimization Among Latinos: Studies Confirm Significant Victim Mental Health Impact and Mistrust of Authorities
                  Bias Crime and Victimization Among Latinx Adults: Formal and Informal Help seeking
                  Hate Crime and Bias Victimization of Latinx Adults: Rates From a Multisite Community Sample
                  Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization Against Latinos




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38228.v1

  
Date Created: September 8, 2016
    
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