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Rebecca Stotzer

Rebecca Stotzer

Rebecca Stotzer is currently a Professor and the Director of Distance Education at the University of Hawaii Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work. Her teaching has focused on policy, research methods, and human behavior. Her research focuses on hate crimes, policy and law, sexual orientation/gender/gender identity, social justice, and oppression.

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Column: LGBTQ Americans are 9 times more likely to be victimized by a hate crime

By: , and - January 10, 2023

In our recent analysis of the National Crime Victimization Survey, we found that the odds of being a violent hate crime victim for LGBTQ people was nine times greater than it was for cisgender and straight people from 2017 to 2019. There were an average annual 6.6 violent hate crime victimizations per 1,000 LGBTQ people […]