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FBI - Uniform Crime Reports - Hate Crime Statistics 1995 Crimes against persons accounted for 72 percent of hate crime offenses reported. Intimidation was the single most frequently reported hate crime offense, accounting for 41 percent of the total. Among the 8,433 known offenders reported to be associated with hate crime incidents, 59 percent were white, and 27 percent were fl. www.fbi.gov /ucr/hatecm.htm   (313 words)

What is a Hate Crime?   (Site not responding. Last check: ) A hate or bias crime is an unlawful act committed against a person, group or place that is motivated by hate or bias. However, a hate or bias crime is a criminal act that is motivated by hate. The Hate Crimes Task Force is a team of investigators with citywide jurisdiction dedicated to investigating all hate crimes and bias related incidents. www.nyc.gov /html/nypd/html/db/biascri.html   (418 words)

Hate Crime - TheSite.org Hate crime is when someone attacks another person verbally, via mail or email, or perhaps physically, and the crime is driven by the attacker's prejudice against a particular group of people. Their statistics show that in the Met's region alone there were 11,799 reported incidents of racist and religious hate crime and 1,359 reported incidents of homophobic hate crime in the 12 months leading up to January 2006. But the true figure is estimated to be even higher because hate crime is under-reported due to the victim being too scared or embarrassed to let someone know it happened. www.thesite.org /homelawandmoney/law/victims/hatecrime   (563 words)

Hate Crimes - The Police Notebook Hate crime is a criminal offense committed against a person or property which is motivated by the offender's bias aganst race, religion ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. Therefore, before an incident can be reported as a hate crime, sufficient objective facts must be present to meet a probable cause-type standard that the offender's actions were motivated, in whole or part, by bias. The offender was previously involved in a similar hate crime or is a member of a a hate group. www.ou.edu /oupd/hate.htm   (816 words)

Home Office | Hate crime Hate crime is any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated by an offender's hatred of someone because of their: The typical hate offender is a young white male (most homophobic offenders are aged 16-20, and most race hate offenders under 30) who lives locally to the victim. The majority of hate crimes happen near to the victim's home while they are going about their daily business, and an offence is most likely to be committed between 3pm and midnight. www.homeoffice.gov.uk /crime-victims/reducing-crime/hate-crime   (619 words)

Victims-Hate Crime Statistics In the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole. Hate crimes motivated by the offender’s bias toward a particular ethnicity/national origin were directed at 1,228 victims. Of the 8,804 victims of a hate crime in 2005, 59.0 percent were victims of crimes against persons and 40.1 percent were victims of crimes against property. www.fbi.gov /ucr/hc2005/victims.htm   (572 words)

Hate Crime Premise But the federal hates crime statutes do not permit us to investigate or prosecute most offenses motivated by a victim's disability, their gender, or their sexual orientation. By making it a federal crime, those who commit hate crimes will be subject to swift and consistent punishment throughout the country. At this point, it may be helpful to review what a crime actually is. (Read applicable sections of the Sceptic's Mislaid American Rights as necessary.) A crime occurs when one person violates another's rights through initiating aggression, threat or fraud. www.unquietmind.com /hate_crime.html   (971 words)

Hate Crime Hate crime is the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious, sexual orientation, or disability. Some perpetrators commit hate crimes with their peers as a "thrill" or while under the influence of drugs or alcohol; some as a reaction against a perceived threat or to preserve their "turf'; and some who out of resentment over the growing economic power of a particular racial or ethnic group engage in scapegoating. Preventing and dealing with hate crimes and hate-based gang activity in schools are the responsibility of school and police officials, who should work together to develop a plan to handle hate crimes and defuse racial tensions. www.usdoj.gov /crs/pubs/htecrm.htm   (4172 words)

Tolerance.org: 10 Ways to Fight Hate The dragging death of a fl man in Jasper, Texas; the crucifixion of a gay man in Laramie, Wyo.; and post-9.11 hate crimes against hundreds of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans and Sikhs are not "isolated incidents." They are eruptions of a nation's intolerance. According to FBI statistics, the greatest growth in hate crimes in recent years is against Asian Americans and the gay and lesbian community. Law enforcement officials acknowledge that hate crimes — similar to rape and family violence crimes — go under-reported, with many victims reluctant to go to the police, and some police agencies not fully trained in recognizing or investigating hate crimes. www.tolerance.org /10_ways   (419 words)

Hate Crime Statistics 2002 A hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin. (Crimes against society comprised 0.6 percent of the reported offenses.) Intimidation continued to be the most frequently reported hate crime against individuals and accounted for 52.1 percent of all crimes against persons. The majority of these known hate crime offenders were white, 61.8 percent; 21.8 percent were fl; 1.2 percent were Asian or Pacific Islander; 0.6 percent were American Indian or Alaskan Native; 9.8 percent were of unknown race; and 4.9 percent were groups of offenders consisting of multiple races. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/anti-semitism/hate02.html   (1231 words)

Hate Crimes Reporting Hate crimes are not only crimes against the targeted victim, but also against a particular group as a whole. A hate crime is a crime in which the perpetrator's conduct is motivated, in whole or in part, by hatred, bias, or prejudice, based upon the actual or perceived race, colour, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation of another individual or group. Victims of homophobic/transphobic crime do not have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual; they just have to be perceived as gay, lesbian or transsexual and/or the crime to be perceived as containing or being influenced by homophobia/transphobia. www.birmingham.gov.uk /hatecrime.bcc   (1193 words)

Hate Crime 2001 Hate crime incidents reported in 2001 were reported only on race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. The 775 victims of the hate crime incidents were 66% male and 27% female with 7% unknown. All of the hate crime arrests were made in the county in which the hate crime occurred except as follows: the Jefferson County arrest resulted from an incident in Allegany County and one of the Onondaga County arrests resulted from an incident in Cortland County. criminaljustice.state.ny.us /crimnet/ojsa/hatecrimes/index.htm   (464 words)

Hate Crimes Laws Introduction Hate crimes demand a priority response because of their special emotional and psychological impact on the victim and the victim's community. Hate crimes may effectively intimidate other members of the victim's community, leaving them feeling isolated, vulnerable and unprotected by the law. Hate crime statutes are necessary because the failure to recognize and effectively address this unique type of crime could cause an isolated incident to explode into widespread community tension. www.adl.org /99hatecrime/intro.asp   (235 words)

Hate Anti-gay hate crimes are those in which victims are chosen solely or primarily because of their actual or presumed sexual/affectional orientation or preference, gender identity and/or status (1). Hate crimes are unique because they send messages to entire groups — as well as to their families and other supporters — that they are unwelcome and unsafe in particular communities. Most anti-gay hate crimes are committed by otherwise law-abiding young people who see little wrong with their actions (3), and who sometimes believe that they have societal permission to engage in such violence... www.queertheory.com /politics/hate.htm   (948 words)

Pennsylvania Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension Hate crimes can be defined with a General Definition or with Legal Definitions which vary depending on specific laws that are enacted at Federal, State and Local levels of government. A hate crime is a criminal offense committed against persons, property or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by an offender's bias against a specific characteristic of an individual or a group such as race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation. Because hate crimes are criminal offenses, legal definitions vary according to the specific criminal law that is violated or applied. www.stopbias.org /hate_crime.htm   (810 words)

NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service - In the Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Hate crime is defined as "the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability" (Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance, Department of Justice Community Relation Service, 2001). Hate crime activities are being investigated at the Federal level by the FBI’s Bias Crimes Unit and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) church arson and explosives experts. As part of the Attorney General’s Hate Crime initiative, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has examined ways to improve participation by law enforcement agencies in collecting and reporting hate crime statistics to the FBI and to profile local responses to hate crime. www.ncjrs.gov /spotlight/Hate_Crimes/Summary.html   (642 words)

Hate crime legislation The assault, robbery, crucifixion, and death on 1998-OCT-12 of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, breathed new life in to the call for an upgrade to the Federal hate crime law. It was known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. Although several hate crime bills had been introduced into the Wyoming legislature, the state remains without a hate crime law as of 2001-NOV. www.religioustolerance.org /hom_hat1.htm   (498 words)

2002 National Victim Assistance Academy Hate and bias crimes are motivated by hatred against a victim based upon his or her race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin and pose unique challenges for victim service providers. Of the 7,755 hate crime incidents reported, 4,321 were motivated by racial bias; 1,390 by religious bias; 1,260 by sexual orientation bias; 754 by ethnicity/national origin bias; 25 by disability bias; and 5 by multiple biases (Ibid., 58). Hate crimes are surveyed in Los Angeles County schools, and hate crime statistics are gathered and combined into a yearly report to the Board of Supervisors. www.ojp.usdoj.gov /ovc/assist/nvaa2002/chapter22_1.html   (6347 words)

The Real "Hate Crime" Hate crimes legislation is dangerous to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association - Canada and Scandanavia have already moved to suppress the criticism of homosexuality with laws making it a "hate crime" to criticize or speak against homosexuality in any way; Hate crimes would not allow for the death penalty to be handed down for heinous crimes. Hate crimes" legislation is a top priority of homosexuals in their desire to gain federal protection as a minority group under federal law. earstohear.net /Separation/hatecrimes.html   (1181 words)

Hate Crime - TheSite.org Hate crime is when someone attacks another person verbally, via mail or email, or perhaps physically, and the crime is driven by the attacker's prejudice against a particular group of people. Their statistics show that in the Met's region alone there were 15,610 reported incidents of racist hate crime and 1,239 reported incidents of homophobic hate crime in the 12 months leading up to April 2002. But the true figure is estimated to be even higher because hate crime is under-reported due to the victim being too scared or embarrassed to let someone know it happened. www.thesite.org.uk /homelawandmoney/law/victims/hatecrime   (563 words)

CBC News Indepth: Hate Crimes The Criminal Code of Canada says a hate crime is committed to intimidate, harm or terrify not only a person, but an entire group of people to which the victim belongs. Hate crimes involve intimidation, harassment, physical force or threat of physical force against a person, a family or a property. The law (subparagraph 718.2(a)(i), to be specific) encourages judges to consider in sentencing whether the crime was motivated by hate of: the victim's race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or any other similar factor. www.cbc.ca /news/background/hatecrimes   (1176 words)

About Hate Crime Statistics The UCR Program's first publication on the subject was Hate Crime Statistics, 1990: A Resource Book, which was a compilation of hate crime data reported by 11 states that had collected the information under state authority in 1990 and were willing to offer their data as a prototype. In creating the program, the designers recognized that hate crimes are not separate, distinct crimes; instead, they are traditional offenses motivated by the offender’s bias (for example, an offender assaults a victim because of a bias against the victim’s race). Victims—The victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole. www.fbi.gov /ucr/hc2005/abouthc.htm   (968 words)

Hate Crime Hate Crime is subjecting people to harassment, victimisation, intimidation or abuse because of their race, faith, religion, gender, disability or because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered. This kind of crime against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered is known as Homophobic/Transphobic Crime. If you are the victim of Hate Crime on Britains rail system, the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, the Midland Metro or Croydon Tramlink, or if someone you know is a victim or if you witness such an incident, then you should contact us. www.btp.police.uk /hatecrime/hatecrime.htm   (289 words)

Hate Crimes Research Network While that contention is only supported by a perversion of the definition of "hate crime" and no research, it also highlights the need for public education on bias-motivated criminality and a need to research hate crimes against majority populations. The Hate Crimes Research Network sponsored a panel on hate crimes at the April 2003 meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in Pasadena, California. Home-Grown Hate is an important and timely contribution that advances our understanding of these hate groups, analyzes their movements and sets the agenda in developing strategies to prevent the further proliferation of hate. www.hatecrime.net   (2008 words)

Hate Crimes The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999, passed by the Senate in July 1999, seeks to expand federal jurisdiction over these crimes. Jacobs and Potter argue that hate crimes legislation is redundant, as these offenses are already punishable under the law. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 was passed by the Senate, and awaits a vote in the House. www.infoplease.com /spot/hatecrimes.html   (869 words)

Alleged Hate Crime Victim Speaks Out - News Story - KNBC | Los Angeles The report defines hate crimes as "cases in which the facts indicate that bias, hatred, or prejudice based on the victim's real or perceived race, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender or sexual orientation is a substantial factor in the commission of the offense." Racially motivated hate crimes jumped from 285 in 2004 to 415 in 2005. According to the FBI, hate crimes have decreased 7.6 percent nationwide and 5.8 percent in California. www.nbc4.tv /news/10533425/detail.html   (543 words)

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