The internet and racial hate crime: Offline spillovers from online access

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 381-403

  Chan, Jason ^a   Ghose, Anindya ^b,c   Seamans, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Broadband; Econometrics; Hate crime; Hate groups; Internet; Online offline interaction; Panel models; Race

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; STATISTICS;

BROADBAND; ECONOMETRICS; HATE GROUPS; OFF-LINE INTERACTIONS; PANEL MODEL; RACE;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84973514464     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2016/40.2.05     Document Type: Conference Paper

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