Civilrights.org FBI Report Shows Decrease In Hate Crimes The five states with the highest numbers of hate crime were California (1,648 incidents,22.1 percent of total reported incidents), New York (693, 9.3 percent http://www.civilrights.org/issues/hate/details.cfm?id=17044
Hate Crimes Violent crime has been declining throughout the United States in recent years,yet hate crimes against LGBT people continue to rise. hate crimes States. http://www.prideatwork.org/hcpa.html
Extractions: INDEX Hate Crime: A Definition The Hate Crimes Prevention ACT (HCPA) Currently Federal Law does not include sexual orientation Federal Laws do not go far enough ... For further information on Hate Crimes contact Hate Crime: A Definition A crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim because of the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender expression or identity, disability, or sexual orientation of any person. Violent crime has been declining throughout the United States in recent years, yet hate crimes against LGBT people continue to rise. In 1997, at least 18 lives were lost as a result of anti-LGBT violence. There were a total of 1,375 reported violent crimes against LGBT individuals. Further the societal costs of hate crimes, in terms of self-esteem, productivity, and public expense, are incalculable. Hate crimes send a message that certain groups of us are not welcome and unsafe in a particular community. As a result, studies indicate that hate crimes appear to have more serious psychological effects on the victims and the communities they represent than do other crimes. Research indicates that victims of hate crimes often link their vulnerability to their personal, cultural, or spiritual identity. The result is that victims of hate crimes often suffer greater emotional trauma than other crime victims. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA)
Extractions: Related links of interest: Society:Crime Society:Issues:Terrorism:Incidents ACLU Statement on Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 - Arguing for expanded federal jurisdiction to prosecute criminal civil rights violations, while precluding evidence of abstract beliefs or membership in an organization from becoming a basis for such prosecutions. APA - Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe In Modern Dress - Examining the issues surrounding hate crimes. About.com - Inside the Mind of a White Supremacist - Interview with the Rev. Matt Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator. American Renaissance - The Hate Crime Sheet - Organization, listing hate crimes committed by non-whites against whites in the United States, and alleging media bias in the coverage of such incidents. Defining Hate Crimes - Attempting to redefine the concept of the hate crime. FBI - Hate Crime Report - The status of hate crime in America. FrontPage Magazine - Politically Correct Crimes - Editorials suggesting that most hate crimes are committed by minorities, but that the media focuses only on crimes committed by whites. HBO - hate.com
Houston Police Online -- Hate Crimes Program hate crimes are traditionally underreported. Over 20 states and theDistrict of Columbia have enacted hate crime legislation. hate http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/department/police/hate_crime2.htm
Extractions: Hate Crimes can create destructive feelings in various communities, especially among groups sensitive to this issue. But, there are ways to fight back. You can fight Hate Crimes by: Immediately reporting any crime you witness or experience to the police. Be sure to write down as many details as possible. This includes telephone calls which can occur during holiday observances Educating your family and friends about Hate Crime Communities must be serious about "creating a generation of peacemakers" ... which means learning and practicing the qualities of understanding and respecting differences
Hate Crimes, Fargo Police Department Those states that have hate crime statutes generally create sentenceenhancements for hate crimes, rather than a new category of crime. http://www.ci.fargo.nd.us/Police/NewWebSite/CrimePrevention/hatecrimes.htm
Extractions: A hate crime is a criminal offense committed against persons, property or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by an offenders bias against an individuals or a groups race, religion, ethnic/national origin, or sexual orientation. Currently, no federal legislation exists allowing for the specific prosecution of hate crimes. Individual states have created legislation regarding hate crimes. North Dakota does not have any specific hate crime legislation. Those states that have hate crime statutes generally create sentence enhancements for hate crimes, rather than a new category of crime. The federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990 encouraged states to report hate crime data to the FBI, and as of 2000, all but two states were reporting hate crime statistics. Fargo reports any local hate crimes to the state and federal government. Has Fargo had any recent hate crimes?
Hate Crimes - College Library Undergraduate Research Guide Sample keyword searches hate crimes hate crimes and united states hate crimes and case studies hate crimes and history http and hate crime? (to http://college.library.wisc.edu/resources/subject_guides/hatecrime.htm
Hate Crimes In other states the hate crime statute is a penalty enhancement. This means thatif an existing crime is committed and it is motivated by bias, the penalty http://www.violence.neu.edu/publication4.html
Extractions: Hate crimes are also known by other names. The most commonly employed of such terms is bias crime, perhaps because it accurately emphasizes that such offenses often arise out of prejudice toward another group of individuals. In addition, Howard Ehrlich (1990), director of the Prejudice Institute at Towson State University has coined the term ethno-violence to include acts that do not rise to the legal standard of a crime, but contain an element of prejudice. These hate incidents may, for example, include the use of ethnic slurs or the exclusion of members of targeted groups from social activities at the workplace. Legal Distinctions At present there is no U.S. federal statute that prohibits hate crimes. The Congress of the United States in 1990 passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act which requires the reporting of statistics on hate crimes, but did not dictate that the commission of a hate crime be regarded as a violation of federal law. In the United States, it has been left up to the states to formulate hate crime legislation. While 39 states presently have some form of hate crime statute(Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997), there exists a wide variation among states in the specifics of their laws. For example, In the area of protected groups (i.e., particular groups are designated as protected in the statute), most states list crimes targeted towards individuals because of their race, religion, or ethnicity as prohibited. However, a number of states also include sexual orientation, disability, and age. The implication of this lack of uniformity is that members of a particular group may be protected by a hate crime statute in one community but not protected in a neighboring community in an adjacent state.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act Of 1999 took place in states that have the most drastic legal sanction available underthe lawthe death penalty. The notion that any federal hate crime law could http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-tl051199.html
Extractions: United States Senate The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 May 11, 1999 Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the committee: My name is Timothy Lynch. I am associate director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to submit written testimony on the question of whether Congress should enact the "Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999." I believe the proponents of hate crimes legislation have good and honorable intentions. They would like to see less bigotry and more good will in American society. While I share that goal, I believe Congress should decline the invitation to enact hate crimes legislation for both constitutional and practical reasons. A. Constitutional Objection The U.S. Constitution created a federal government of limited powers. As James Madison noted in the Federalist no. 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." Most of the federal government's "delegated powers" are specifically set forth in article I, section 8. The Tenth Amendment was appended to the Constitution to make it clear that the powers not delegated to the federal government "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Hate Crimes are some states that have hate crimes legislation and others that do not encourageshate crime victims and perpetrators to travel between states, and this in http://www.asuc.org/hatecrimes/legislation.php
Extractions: California Legislation Federal Legislation sign online petition California California's Hate Crime Legislation is predicated on the idea that it is the right of every person, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, or handicap, to be secure and protected from fear, intimidation, and physical harm caused by the activities of violent groups and individuals. According to the Legislature, "hate crimes" refer to acts of intimidation, harassment, physical force, or the threat of physical force directed against any person, or family, or their property or advocate, motivated by hostility to the real or perceived ethnic background, national origin, religious belief, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation, with the intention of causing fear and intimidation. After AB 1999 was passed in 1998, California law punishes as a misdemeanor, a person who uses force against any person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. Existing law also imposes an enhanced penalty on a person who commits or attempts to commit a felony because of the victim's actual or perceived membership in any of the above specified groups. In some cases, the court can even sentence this felon to a second term.
Stats and arrests to the FBI In most states a department of are many data fields on eachincident of crime. hate crime In Iowa, the Department was preparing to move http://www.state.ia.us/government/dps/asd/stats.htm
Extractions: In 1974, the 65th Iowa General Assembly enacted a provision of Chapter 749B (later 692B.15) of the Code of Iowa requiring law enforcement agencies to submit reports of crime and arrests to the Iowa Department of Public Safety. During December 1974, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a bureau in the Department, counducted schools throughout the state on the proper completion of the Uniform Crime Reports. The Iowa Department of Public Safety has collected crime statistics from the local law enforcement agencies and produced a report about Iowa crime since 1975. During the years 1975 to 1990 the format for collecting statistics was monthly summary submissions of crime data from the local law enforcement jurisdictions to the Department.
Clinton Urges Expansion Of Hate Crime Law - April 6, 1999 More than 40 states have hate crimes laws but only 21 cover sexualorientation, 22 cover gender and 21 cover disability. Clinton http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/06/hate.crimes/
Extractions: Web posted at: 12:14 p.m. EST (1714 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, April 6) President Bill Clinton urged Congress Tuesday morning to expand the list of hate crimes covered under federal law to include cases involving sexual orientation. "The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would be important substantively and symbolically to send a message to ourselves and to the world that we are going into the 21st century determined to preach and to practice what is right," Clinton said during a Roosevelt Room ceremony. President Clinton spoke Tuesday in favor of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act Clinton also directed that colleges be required to report campus hate crimes each year. The president laid-out a public-private partnership designed to educate middle school students against intolerance. In Clinton's proposed hate crimes legislation, current law would be expanded so the Justice Department could prosecute crimes based on a person's gender, sexual orientation or disability. Only crimes based on a victim's race or religion can currently be prosecuted as hate crimes.
Data Lounge: Good & Bad News In New Hate Crime Stats Good Bad News in New hate crime stats Friday, April 13th 2001 Source GayHealth.com,Overview of this issue. RE Good Bad News in New hate crime stats. http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=14260
Federal Bureau Of Investigation - Uniform Crime Reports produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across theUnited States. Other annual publications, such as hate crime Statistics and http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Extractions: Uniform Crime Reports The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States , are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Other annual publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted address specialized facets of crime such as hate crime or the murder and assaults of law enforcement officers respectively. Special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the UCR's large database are published each year as well. In addition to these reports, information about the
HateCrime.org Home Page The Web's comprehensive hate crime Web site with free gay rights email newsletter and information on bias attacks against gays lesians bisexuals transgender blacks people of color women and other http://www.hatecrime.org/
Hate Crimes In the online magazine Slate, Eve Gerber writes, The definition of a hate crimevaries. Twenty-one states include mental and physical disability in their http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hatecrimes.html
Extractions: Buford O. Furrow opened fire at a Jewish community center. The avowed White supremacist will be prosecuted for hate crimes. These powerful words were uttered by Martin Luther King, Jr. Jewish community center in Los Angeles reminds us that crimes once driven solely by hatred for one's race now stem from opposition to one's religion gender disability , or sexual orientation According to the Southern Poverty Law Center , a non-profit organization which tracks hate crimes, there were over 500 hate groups operating in the U.S. in 1998. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles tallies even more, monitoring over 2,100 hate sites on the Internet.
Extractions: Your Javascript is turned off or you're using an old browser. You're missing a helpful scrolling menu, but the bottom of the page has complete navigation options. Legal cases and information from Paul's Criminal Justice Ethics (includes more info on problem of hate speech) Misperceptions Cloud Whites' View of Blacks Whether out of hostility, indifference or simple lack of knowledge, large numbers of white Americans incorrectly believe that blacks are as well off as whites in terms of their jobs, incomes, schooling and health care, according to a national survey by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. Share this page: Enter e-mail address Virginia v Black (2002 Cross burning case argued before Supreme Court) The source of most hate crimes statistics is the FBI's Uniform Crime Report . The FBI's report is 120 pages, and contains some important methodological issues related to counting and reporting hate crimes. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has a Summary of 1997-99 There's a helpful short summary of 1999 data available from the Human Rights Campaign . See also the Dept of Justice Report
Hate Crimes Research Network Producing and Enforcing the Geography of HateRace, Housing Segregation, and HousingRelatedhate crimes in the United States, Jeff Crump AfterwordFinding and http://www.hatecrime.net/
Extractions: The Hate Crimes Research Network is designed to link academic research that is being done on the topic of bias motivated crime. Based at the Department of Sociology of Portland State University in Oregon, the HCRN links work done by sociologists, criminologists, psychologists and other academics, including graduate students. The goal is to create a common pool of research and data to understand the phenomenon of hate crimes. The HCRN and this site are directed by Dr. Randy Blazak. IN THE NEWS New Volume on the Geography of Hate While much has been written about hate groups and extreme right political movements, this book will be the first that addresses the crucial role that place and context play in generating and shaping them. Ranging across geographical scales the essays start with the home, and then move from the local to the regional, to the national to-finally-the global. In this collection, much of the focus is on the U.S., as the contributors consider a variety of hate activity and hate groups across the country, including; rural white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements; anti-black sentiment directed towards cities; anti-gay activity in cities and rural areas and the resurgent Southern nationalist movement. Closing with pieces from those who combat hate activity, the intention of Spaces of Hate is to recognize specific geographic settings likely to foster hate activity. (Source:
Related Links On Hate Crime Prevention hate crime Prevention Related Links. The following links provide several resources and information related to hate crime prevention on college campuses as well as organizations working to combat hate http://www.stophate.org/stophate/relatedlinks.html
Extractions: Hate Crime Prevention Related Links The following links provide several resources and information related to hate crime prevention on college campuses as well as organizations working to combat hate in communities. University Initiatives in Higher Education Hate Crimes/Hate Groups and Prejudice: A Selective Bibliography of Materials at the UMD Library
