The Role of the Social Environment in the Relationship Between Group-Focused Enmity Towards Social Minorities and Politically Motivated Crime

Abstract Politically motivated crime against a person is characterised by the fact that victims are interchangeable in sense individuals seen as representatives of their social or ethnic group. The current study examines whether existence group-focused enmity (GFE) linked to perpetration discriminatory behaviour, form politically crime, which considered classic example attitude–behaviour relationship. Although various survey studies show connections between towards minorities and behavioural intentions, there less knowledge available on attitudes can also be regarded potential risk factors for actual behaviour. role environment this relationship, well how related regardless personal enmity, further analysed. Using representative student sample from year 2018 ( N = 2824), results anti-immigrant, anti-gay, ableist anti-homeless these minority groups, even after controlling other correlates crime. Group-focused has an greater effect when like-minded friendship Moreover, if adolescent’s group (hypothetically) approves such likelihood acting violent manner increased, adolescents who do not support enmity.