In fact, Jack Levin from Northeastern University reports that over half of all hate crimes are committed by people under the age of twenty-two. A certain percent of these individual join the group out of their own desire and not because of any one event in their lives. Many of these youths are middle class kids. These kids find their way to Nazism through the internet which contains many hate sites, and other various forms of propaganda. However there is a growing percent of people joining these groups because of socioeconomic conditions.
Hate crimes are also more likely to occur in what has been termed as edge cities .
These crimes occur in these suburban cities more frequently then they occur in the larger cities in the United States. Hate crimes are often committed in cities where there are an increase in minorities. This might be because the whites view the increase in minorities as a treat to their power. Due to socioeconomic conditions more hate crimes are being committed. Levin says, It s a protest by proxy.