Bias crime is motivated by the offender's hatred for another perceived person's race, ethnicity, or religion.
Improvements in the criminal justice system related to bias crime include police departments vigorously investigating and solving these types of crimes.
Domestic terrorism encompasses activities that include acts dangerous to human life such as assassination, kidnapping, or unleashing weapons of mass destruction within the United States and Puerto Rico.
Risk factors for work-related homicides include working at establishments where cash transactions take place.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs suffer the highest rate of workplace homicides of any occupational group.
Fortunately, most police officers have sufficient state-of-the-art technology to pursue cyber stalkers.
Most physical attacks on college campuses are by acquaintances, not strangers.
One of the problems with the under-inclusion of certain groups in society as protected groups lies within the notion that it opens the door to including any type of group in society under hate crime legislation.
For an act to be classified as a hate crime, the act does not necessarily have to be motivated by hatred at all.
Therefore, the impact of a hate crime is far greater and should be penalized more severely.
At the same time, some of the most horrific incidents of hate crimes targeting the disabled periodically appear in headlines of major newspapers, in particular when torture, sexual abuse, and murder are motivated by dis ability bias.
Some real world examples of sexual orientation hate crimes are the Matthew Shepard story, The Teena Brandon story , The Shandra Sharer story, and James Byrd Jr. story. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. hate crimes prevention act “gives the Justice Department the power to investigate and prosecute bias motivated violence by providing th
The statistics of the FBI’s annual hate crime report over recent years identify hate crimes based on disability bias as being no more than a small fraction of total hate crimes, with the percentage of disability bias incidents representing less than 1 percent of the total.
The concept of hate crime entered the legal arena in the United States as recently as 1978, when California became the first state to introduce Legislation that specifically addressed crimes motivated by prejudice against a victim’s perceived group membership. Grattet, Jenness and Curry 1998).
The most effective ways to fight hate crimes include the creation of laws that fulfill the following: Laws defining specific bias; laws defining criminal penalties; laws creating a distinct civil cause for hate crimes; and laws requiring administrative agencies to collect data regarding hate crimes.
The Georgia Supreme Court voted 7-0 to throw out the state’s existing hate crimes law because, unlike other similar laws, does not list groups that could be victims and therefore is “unconstitutionally vague”.
Bias crime is motivated by the offender's hatred for another perceived person's race, ethnicity, or religion.
Improvements in the criminal justice system related to bias crime include police departments vigorously investigating and solving these types of crimes.
Domestic terrorism encompasses activities that include acts dangerous to human life such as assassination, kidnapping, or unleashing weapons of mass destruction within the United States and Puerto Rico.
Risk factors for work-related homicides include working at establishments where cash transactions take place.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs suffer the highest rate of workplace homicides of any occupational group.
Fortunately, most police officers have sufficient state-of-the-art technology to pursue cyber stalkers.
Most physical attacks on college campuses are by acquaintances, not strangers.