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LSE British Politics and Policy blog: Amplifying Islamophobic hate crime: UK media in the wake of terror attacks
9 May 2019
Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin study the empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks. They find that local Muslim populations face a media-magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization in the days following such incidents.