[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46326-46328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19431]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

National Institute of Justice

[OMB Number 1121--NEW]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Comments Requested: Understanding Trends in Hate Crimes Against 
Immigrants and Hispanic Americans

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review.

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    The Department of Justice (DOJ), National Institute of Justice 
(NIJ) and Office of Justice Programs (OJP) will be submitting the 
following information collection request to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed information collection is 
published to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. 
Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for sixty days until 
October 3, 2011. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 
1320.10.
    Written comments concerning this information collection should be 
sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget, Attn: DOJ Desk Officer. The best way to ensure 
your comments are received is to e-mail them to [email protected] or fax them to 202-395-7285. All comments should 
reference the 8 digit OMB number for the collection or the title of the 
collection. If you have questions concerning the collection, please 
call Carrie Mulford at 202-307-2959 or the DOJ Desk Officer at 202-395-
3176.
    Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are 
encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following 
four points:

--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
--Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of

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appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of responses.

Overview of This Information Collection

    (1) Type of Information Collection: New Collection.
    (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Understanding Trends in Hate 
Crimes Against Immigrants and Hispanic Americans.
    (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form Number: N/A. 
National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
    (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Law enforcement chiefs and sheriffs. 
Secondary: Patrol officers, directors of advocacy organizations for 
immigrants, and clients of immigration advocacy organizations. While 
there has been great progress in understanding and measuring hate 
crime, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. To address these 
questions, we are employing a multi-method analysis of hate crime in 
the United States with a special focus on trends in crimes against 
Hispanic Americans and others perceived to be immigrants. The first 
phase of the project, already complete, involved gathering and 
analyzing relevant secondary data sets. Phase two of the project will 
involve a survey of a sample of 500 police departments, focus groups 
with law enforcement personnel and NGOs addressing hate crime in five 
selected sites, and interviews with expert law enforcement 
practitioners, trainers and researchers.
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: We hope to 
gather 500 responses to the law enforcement survey. Agencies selected 
for the survey will be based on a disproportionate stratified random 
sample design with oversampling of agencies serving populations over 
50,000. Further, we estimate that we will conduct about 20 focus 
groups, each time with about eight individuals, and at least 60 
individual interviews. The table below shows the estimated number of 
respondents for each portion of data collection.

                                             Law Enforcement Survey
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                     State                         Arizona     California    Michigan    New Jersey     Texas
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Police Chiefs..................................           64          174           79           82          101
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                                                  Focus Groups
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Patrol Officers................................           16           16           16           16           16
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Clients of NGOs................................           16           16           16           16           16
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Law Enforcement................................            6            6            6            6            6
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NGO directors..................................            6            6            6            6            6
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    The law enforcement survey will take about 30 minutes to complete. 
Each of the focus groups will last for approximately one hour. 
Individual interviews will last between 30 minutes and one hour.
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: There are an estimated 470 annual total public 
burden hours associated with this collection.

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                                                                  Estimated time       Total       Total minutes
                              Task                                   (minutes)     participants      per task
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Law Enforcement Survey..........................................              30             500          15,000
Focus Groups....................................................              60             160           9,600
Interviews......................................................              60              60           3,600
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    Total.......................................................  ..............  ..............          28,200
                                                                                                   (= 470 hours)
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    If additional information is required contact: Jerri Murray, 
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, 
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two 
Constitution Square, 145 N Street, NE., Room 2E-508, Washington, DC 
20530.

Jerri Murray,
Department Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2011-19431 Filed 8-1-11; 8:45 am]
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