FIU-RCMI Research in Progress Seminar featuring Dr. Besiki Kutateladze

On November 20, 33 researchers attended the FIU-RCMI Research in Progress Seminar, “Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime Victimization and Reporting: A Mixed- Methods Approach,” facilitated by Dr. Besiki Kutateladze. Dr. Kutateladze discussed social science research on hate crimes against LGBTQ persons remains limited. Most of the existing hate crimes research focuses on race, uses macro-level geographic units, and relies on the official statistics which is limited due to severe underreporting. This exploratory study partially fills this vast gap in the literature by employing a mixed-methods design and relying on the intersectionality perspective to examine hate crime victimization and crime reporting among Miami’s LGBTQ Latino immigrant population.​