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    The Many Forms of Hate Crimes The issue of hate crimes has greatly affected the way in which people interact. A hate crime is defined as any act of violence or verbal slashing of a person based upon race, religious belief, or one's sexuality. There are several other grounds for determining a hate crime depending upon guidelines in written laws. Hate crimes are said to have originally derived from the unjust treatment of Jewish cultures during the Holocaust in World War II. Slavery of African

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    A hate crime or hate bias, is a horrible violence that is intended to hurt or offend someone based on race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. Hate crimes has had many recurring violence throughout the world and in American history. Several of these historical hate crimes, I had observed and read about in the ten articles called: Hate Crime Time Line, Hate Crime from National Prevention Council, FBI hate crime statistics, Famous Hate crimes in History

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    Hate Crime Definition

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    defined in 1999 the survey on the victims of domestic crimes, "A hate crime is an unlawful act or crime committed against a person or it can also be a property, because of prejudice against offenders of a racial group, religion, ethnic group, a race, sexual preference, or disability. The offense is considered a hate crime even if the perception of offenders for the victim as a member of a protected group is correct. Hate crime can be also a crime committed by a majority member against a minority member

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    The Rise Of Hate Crimes

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    “Overall last year, 931 hate crime events were reported, up from 837 in 2015. There were 1,190 additional offenses reported, up from 1,057 in 2015. But the numbers are on the rise. Hate crimes in 2015 were up 10.4 percent compared to 2014” (Hart). Hate crimes are incidents involving acts of rape, assault, vandalism, or homicide, that are directed to people of a certain ethnic or racial groups. Since before World War 1, the FBI has been investigating and recording hate crimes that have resulted in homicides

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    slowly adopted them into our ways of living, there are many cases in which we still do not. Racism is a key example of why you can never say everyone is treated the same. On many accounts, there have been occurrences such as police brutality, hate crimes, slurs and many other disturbing feats towards people possibly that you hang out with on a regular basis. All of these can be examples of discrimination. The obvious dissatisfaction that comes from going online and reading about another black

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    The Hate Crime Prevention Act provides funding and technical assistances to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions to help them to more effectively investigate and prosecute hate crimes (The United States Department of Justice, 2015). This specific policy also created a new federal law against individuals who committed a crime based on a victim’s: religion, national origin, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or disability (The United State Department of Justice, 2015)

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    occurrences. With the current state of hate speech laws, there is nothing that could be done to put culpability on the instigator. Hate has a strong connection to United States history. Slaves were a result of being hateful to those who were different, and Jim Crow laws were also a consequence of this hatred. As much time has passed since then, America has become more progressive, although there are still people who are hateful of others for they way they are. Hate speech laws are necessary in the United States

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    current state of hate speech laws, there is nothing that could be done to punish the instigator of the hate speech. Hate has a strong connection to United States history. Slaves were a result of being hateful to those who were different, and Jim Crow laws were a consequence of a hatred for those who were different also. As much time has passed since then, America has gotten more progressive although there are still people who are hateful of others for they way they are. Hate speech laws are necessary

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    Hate Crimes I. What are Hate Crimes A. Definitions for Hate Crimes B. Counting Hate Crimes 1. White Power 2. Black Power II. Examples of Hate Crimes A. Hate Crime penalties III. Reasons for Hate Crimes Even though Hate Crimes have been around in the past, and have been most certainly been more violent in the past. Hate Crimes are most certainly still a problem in today's society, but it is not dealt with the same violent manner as previously performed in the past. There are still violent acts

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    History Of Hate Crimes

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    How horrible to live in a world full of hate where people talk about our history of horrors such as slavery and the holocaust . How hypocritical of us to hate something we don't understand. We believe our past occurred because people were to ignorant and selfish to make a difference but here we are in the present and nothing's changed the past has only repeated itself. Hate crimes are criminal actions intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion

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