Hate Crime

A Hate Crime is a crime associated with hate.

• Example(s):
  • a Race-based Crime.
  • a Sex-based Crime, or a Gender-based Crime.
  • a Social Status-based Crime.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Financial Crime.
• See: Sex Crime, Rape, Child Abuse.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hate_crime Retrieved:2022-1-4.
  • A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or racial demographic. Examples of such groups can include, and are almost exclusively limited to ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called “bias incidents". “Hate crime" generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more of the social groups listed above, or by bias against their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, homicide, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse (which includes slurs) or insults, mate crime or offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail). A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the penalties associated with conduct which is already criminal under other laws, while hate speech laws criminalize a category of speech. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the violence against people of Asian origin significantly increased on the background of accusation of spreading the virus.  In May 2020, the Polish-based “NEVER AGAIN” Association published its report titled “The Virus of Hate: The Brown Book of Epidemic”, that documented numerous acts of racism, xenophobia and discrimination that occurred in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, as well as cases of spreading hate speech and conspiracy theories about the epidemic by the extreme right.

2013

• (Hall, 2013) ⇒ Nathan Hall. (2013). “Hate Crime.” Willan,
  • ABSTRACT: In recent years 'hate crime' has rapidly ascended political, policing and wider criminal justice agenda, and an increasing range of legislative measures have been implemented in the UK, the US and elsewhere to combat it. Yet research and writing on the subject has largely failed to keep up with these new realities, especially in the UK. This text aims to fill this gap by examining various aspects of 'hate crime' in a predominantly British context, but situating this within the wider international criminological and policing literature on the subject. The book looks in detail at the way the police have responded to hate crime, and the policies and practice now being adopted to respond to it.

2011

• (Pinker, 2011) ⇒ Steven Pinker. (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined." Viking New York. ISBN:978-0-670-02295-3
  • QUOTE: ... Rape, battering, hate crimes, deadly riots, child abuse, cruelty to animals - all substantially down. ...

    ... By the standards of the mass atrocities of human history, the lethal injection of a murderer in Texas, or an occasional hate crime in which a member of an ethnic minority is intimidated by hooligans, is pretty mild stuff. ...

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