I am studying hate crime and want to look at peoples' beliefs about crimes based on revenge motivation underpinned by religious/cultural hatred. Research previously seems to have used vignettes whereas I want to look at it quantitatively using surveys however I cannot find a scale so specific.
It may not be necessary to use a "scale" for this purpose. You could design a few simple survey items on a conceptual basis, then look at the structure underlying these items using latent class models (to create "profiles" of respondents). There are plenty of examples of this in Political Science and Sociology.
Analytically, I would recommend the PoLCA package for use in the R environment. Consult this website for more info and examples: votamatic.org
As a starting point, I would suggest Neil Chakraborti's work, as he has does several in-depth studies on hate crimes. Like the previous contributor, I would also re-consider sing a specific "scale", as many of the existing studies have not used such a methodology.
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