Hate Crime Summary And Analysis

Because of the ongoing racial tension, in December 2006, a fight broke from a White student taunting some Black students supporting the incident of the nooses being hung from the tree in the school courtyard (Christie, 2008). The White student was badly beaten and had to be hospitalized. The African American students were later charged with attempted murder and conspiracy. The African American students were between the ages of 15 and 17, facing up to 100 years in prison without parole. African American residents of Jena, Louisiana stated

South Carolina’s hands seem to be filled with a surplus of judgment and resentment for how things are run in varying parts of the country; but yet neglect the issues that hit home. While South Carolina legislation is busy worrying about letting “murderers, rapists, and criminals” through our borders, they are blind to the murderers, rapists, and criminals in our own state. Two counties in South Carolina are included in the top 30 dangerous areas in America along with holding the ranking of seventh in America’s most criminal state which has gradually climbed the rank since 2012. Causation for such a high crime rate stems from an equally as terrifying statistic. Almost 19% of South Carolina citizens live under the poverty line, nearly 1 in

A 2005 study conducted by National Institute of Justice, found that the Federal Government and all but one state, Wyoming, have laws related to hate crimes. A consistent problem identified by this study is there in no consistency in defining what constitutes a hate crime. (Carrie F. Mulford, Ph.D., & Michael Shively, Ph.D., Hate Crime in America: The Debate Continues, 257, Nat’l Inst Just., (2007). “The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines hate crime—also called bias crime—as “a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.” ld.

While hate crime is a fairly new label for a crime, the existence of hate crimes has been present since the early days of the United States. Throughout US history, murders, assaults, and destruction of property has occurred against African Americans, American Indians, Irish immigrants, Asian Americans, Latino’s, gays, the mentally handicapped, and all other groups of minorities. Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, there has been an increase in racial based attacks against those of Middle Eastern descent, whether they are Muslim or not. Of all of these, African Americans are subjected to the highest number of hate crimes (Martin 1996), with Muslims, homosexuals, and transgendered people on

Trump as the president-elect has divided the country more than it has brought it’s people together. ‘There has always been hate and divisions,’ some would say. While this is true, this kind of prevalence has not been at the forefront of the political, personal, social, etc. sphere in a long while. Headlines are becoming more trigger inducing and there has been an uproar of hate crimes across the nation. While both sides have contributed to the hatefulness, the way that the hate is manifested is more rampant among supporters of Trump. This is seen through the way that the hate crime rate has gone up since November 8th. In more ways than one Trump’s election into office has given these people that have hate in them a pass, of sorts, to act on that hate and victimize others.

My Hate crime is a Brooklyn NY man has been charged with a hate crime for robbing Asian woman in Borough Park. A 20 year old named Manuel Israel of Manhattan has been charged with robbery as a hate crime for six attacks on woman of Chinese descent in Brooklyn. The man faces a 36 count indictment on robbery, assault and other charges handed down by the office of the Brooklyn district attorney Kenneth P. Thompson who is defending this case. Mr. Israel robbed 5 woman and investigators believed he tried to rob the sixth in the Borough park neighborhood. The attacks started from March 21st to April 6th. The reason why Mr. Israel was targeting Asian woman walking alone because he believed he could overpower them. The victims were all ages from 21

In the case of the shooting in Charleston, Dylann was motivated to go into an African American church to terrorize and inflict casualties of innocent churchgoers, which fits the profile for both a hate crime and

The first federal initiative to combat hate crimes was the Hate Crime Statistics Act (“HCSA”), passed in 1990. The purpose of this act was to “let Congress and law enforcement officials know whether hate crimes are in fact on the rise” and aid in the process of developing

Hate Crimes Prevention Act also provides authorities with a better picture of the prevalence of hate crimes by requiring local authorities to include hate crimes committed because of sexuality, gender, gender identity, and disability to the reports on local hate crimes that they send in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Before the HCPA, hate crimes were already too prevalent in the United States, and the addition of these new classifications of hate crimes only added to the amount of hate crimes committed, giving the government and U.S. citizens a greater awareness of this problem. For example, of the 6,573 hate crimes committed in 2012, the top three motivations behind these acts were race (47.2 percent), religion (20.2 percent), and sexual orientation (19.7 percent) (“Hate Violence,”

It might face an uphill battle to be seen, because it revisits a crime that sparked national reckoning with the reality of homophobia, and that eventually led to the creation of The Matthew Shepard Foundation and the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. I hope people discover it. It is wrenching but never exploitive. It is impressively skeptical of the same mission that it takes on its shoulders: to make something positive from a senseless crime without diminishing its senselessness.

Unfortunately, individuals with a disability typically are more vulnerable in regards to hate crimes. For instance, in the article “The Invisible Hate Crime,” Jack Levin mentions Jennifer Daugherty. Daugherty was a disabled individual who was inhumanly murdered by six people who she thought were her good friends. These “friends” fed Daugherty detergent, beat her with a towel rack, and forced her to write a suicide note among other torturous acts. Disabled persons are stereotypically seen as “different” and “weak” by society. These stereotypes make it easier in a sense to attack these individuals as they have weakened cognitive abilities. Levin also states that “unlike racially and religiously motivated offenses, attacks against people with

and their extents. As a recently coined term, it was not widely known as to what exactly it entailed. HSCA would give one the ability to see, in numbers, how often the crimes were occurring.

Hate Crimes are defined by the Hate Crime Statistics Act as a criminal offense committed against a person or property motivated by a person’s belief or opinions against a race, religion, ethnic group, or a groups sexual orientation. The term hate crime can also be misleading in that it is supposed to be motivated by prejudice which is not clear in either legal or demeanor terms.

In the article Hate Crimes Now Directed at L.G.B.T. People the Most, Haeyoun Park brings up the topic of the worsening of LGBT hate crimes. The author exhibits a liberal bias, he shows this by bringing to the reader's attention to the fact that republican officials are denying that the Orlando Pulse Massacre had anything to do with LGBT individuals or that Pulse was even an LGBT club. Park uses statistics from multiple studies, and cites people who have contributed to this research, like Gregory M. Herek, a psychology professor from UC Davis, and Roger Coggan, the director of legal services at the LA LGBT Center. Following his statistics, Park uses numerous examples of different hate crimes from across the nation to support his claim. He uses

Throughout American history, violent criminal acts against a specific person or a group of individuals were just that, violent crimes. In the 1980’s, the term hate crime was born. The term hate crime was used by a group of advocates to describe a series of violent incidents targeting several minorities (Nij.gov, 2015). A hate crime is “a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender 's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation,