OBJECTIVE Previous research has noted contradictory findings regarding race and police notification, such that Black people indicate higher levels of distrust in the police yet report victimization to the police at rates similar to or higher than others. We investigated the role of offense severity in accounting for these discrepancies. HYPOTHESES We hypothesized that severity would moderate racial differences in reporting, such that Black victims would be less likely to report less severe victimization but more likely to report more severe victimization. We expected that these differences would be less pronounced for bias-motivated crime, regardless of other markers of severity. METHOD We used data from the 2003-2016 National Crime Victimization Survey, including information on 21,510 victimization incidents, 1,105 of which were hate crimes. We conducted logistic regression analyses in which reporting was regressed on victim race, offense severity, hate crime status, and control variables. We also examined interactive effects to disentangle whether severity moderated racial differences in notification. RESULTS We observed a three-way interaction of Black victims, offense severity, and hate crime status. Specifically, for nonbias incidents, Black victims were more likely than White victims to report severe incidents, but there was no racial difference in reporting nonsevere incidents. Additionally, for nonsevere incidents, Black victims were more likely than White victims to report hate crimes, but there was no racial difference in reporting nonhate crimes. CONCLUSIONS Offense severity plays an important role in the victim decision-making process. These patterns are different, however, by race and for hate crime victims, suggesting that people perceive hate crimes as important to report, regardless of their severity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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严重性问题：犯罪严重性在预测向警方报告偏见和非偏见受害时的种族差异方面的调节作用。

目标 先前的研究已经注意到关于种族和警察通知的矛盾发现，例如，黑人表示对警察的不信任程度更高，但向警察报告的受害率与其他人相似或更高。我们调查了犯罪严重程度在解释这些差异中的作用。假设我们假设严重程度会缓和报告中的种族差异，因此黑人受害者不太可能报告不太严重的受害，但更有可能报告更严重的受害。我们预计，无论其他严重程度如何，这些差异对于以偏见为动机的犯罪来说都不会那么明显。方法 我们使用了 2003-2016 年全国犯罪受害调查的数据，包括 21,510 起受害事件的信息，其中 1,105 起是仇恨犯罪。我们进行了逻辑回归分析，其中报告对受害者种族、犯罪严重程度、仇恨犯罪状况和控制变量进行了回归分析。我们还检查了交互效果，以理清严重程度是否会减轻通知中的种族差异。结果 我们观察到黑人受害者、犯罪严重程度和仇恨犯罪状况的三向互动。具体而言，对于非偏见事件，黑人受害者比白人受害者更有可能报告严重事件，但报告非严重事件没有种族差异。此外，对于非严重事件，黑人受害者比白人受害者更有可能举报仇恨犯罪，但在举报非仇恨犯罪方面没有种族差异。结论 犯罪严重程度在受害者决策过程中起着重要作用。这些图案不一样，然而，根据种族和仇恨犯罪受害者，这表明人们认为仇恨犯罪很重要，无论其严重程度如何。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。