Hate crime laws

between religious fanaticism and hate crime. Everyone has bias. It is impossible to be totally unbiased, but most people do not use their bias to justify violent acts. The most common term associated with hate crime is biased crime. Hate crimes often stem from a prejudice toward a certain group of individuals. Some evidence suggests that hate crimes are not committed to a group that is specifically geared toward hating another group. Only about five percent of hate crime are committed by prejudicial

Hate Crimes Prevention Act This act, also known as, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, was established in October of 2009 as the result of two malevolent murders. In 1998 Matthew Shepard was tortured and killed because he was believed to be gay. James Byrd Jr. was beaten, dragged behind a truck and eventually decapitated just because he was African American. The people who committed these crimes were later convicted for murder but could not be prosecuted for committing a hate

A hate crime is described as a crime that is motivated by racial, religious, gender, sexual orientation, or other prejudice. These laws were not passed by U.S. Representatives until the late 1980’s, they were passed because studies showed crimes that were prejudice motivated had increased. The lawful definition of hate crime varies from state to state. Some states disregard crimes based on sexual orientation. Others only extend to harassment, assault, and damage to property crimes, but all states

(2009) to combat hate crimes. Some steps include training criminal justice personnel on how to investigate these crimes, reaching out to communities and building relationships so victims are more comfortable reporting these crimes, and educating the public on tolerance and nondiscrimination. There are two elements that must be present for it to be deemed a hate crime, those being that it must be a criminal offense and that it must have bias motive. These crimes differ from regular crimes because we must

Throughout history, crimes have been committed worldwide. Murder, assault, and other crimes have been dealt with some kind of punishment, but one crime stays unnoticed and not cared about. Hate crimes, a major conflict in communities, have been showing up without anyone noticing. People sometimes commit them unaware of the consequences due to the lack of understanding what a hate crime really is. A hate crime is a motive to hurt or insult a certain group of people. It is more harsh and dangerous

Should Hate Be Protected? Hate speech is one of the most controversial topics discussed in modern society. Some groups believe that it should continue to be protected by free speech laws. However, as hate speech has caused and continues to cause harm in communities around the world, precautions should be taken against it in order to ensure that it does not escalate into physical violence. Hate speech should not be protected under free speech laws because of the physical, societal, and psychological

Hate Crimes After reading “The Laramie Project” your left with so many questions, ideas and emotions. The play is a series of interviews (reenacted exactly as they happened) to give the audience facts and true statements so that they can form there own opinion. The play takes place in Laramie Wyoming, after the “hate crime” that left 21 year old Matthew Shepard fighting for his life that ended soon after all because the fact that he was gay. Hate is a feeling and hate crime is acting

the Hate Crimes Statistics Act was amended by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This amendment provides funding to help different levels of jurisdiction better investigate and prosecute hate crimes. Additionally, this amendment expanded the protections of hate crimes to include disability, gender identity, sexuality, and gender. This Act was brought about following the deaths of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., who were both victims of brutal hate crimes. According

Justice Professor at Bridgewater State University, states that crimes are committed for numerous reasons. However, when dealing with bias crime, also known as hate crime, the motivation stems from “prejudice or hostile” behavior that is “triggered by his or her perception of the victim’s ethnicity, race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or gender” (Tupin-Petrosino, 2015, p. 2). When one thinks of a gender-based crime, many individuals concluded the crime’s victim is most likely

though these violent attacks have lessened through the years, though the truth of the matter is that, over the last ten years, though hate crimes in general have gone down, the percentage of hate crime victims targeted based on sexual orientation or gender is on the rise. Many incredible activists have made monumental attempts at understanding the nature of these hate crimes and this discrimination in modern America. However, even the most incredible scholars cannot completely comprehend the nature of