Extractions: Department of Justice Resources All 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico have established crime victim assistance and compensation programs. Crime victim assistance programs can provide a range of services to hate crime victims and their families, including crisis intervention, counseling, emergency shelter, criminal justice advocacy, and emergency transportation. Crime victim compensation programs can provide substantial financial assistance to hate crime victims and their families. The compensation programs reimburse victims for crime-related expenses such as medical costs and mental health counseling, funeral and burial costs, lost wages or loss of support. A number of programs also cover crime-scene cleanup, travel costs to receive treatment, moving expenses, and the cost of house-keeping and child care. Some expenses are not covered by most compensation programs, including theft, damage, and property loss.
UNITED STATES: "WE ARE NOT THE ENEMY" 6 (G). UNITED STATES. WE ARE NOT THE ENEMY hate crimes Against Arabs,Muslims, and Those Perceived to be Arab or Muslim after September 11. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/usahate/
Glbtq >> Social Sciences >> Hate Crimes Eight states also include gender identity protection, while another 17 states havehate crimes statutes that do not include either sexual orientation or gender http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/hate_crimes.html
Extractions: page: Hate Crimes is a recent category in the law that distinguishes crimes against a person or his or her property when motivated by bias towards a group or groups from the same crimes when not animated by the offending bias. Types of offending bias include crimes motivated by the victim's race, color, religion, national origin, and, more controversially, sexual orientation and gender identity. Whereas demarcating a category in the law for crimes animated by a desire to inflict some form of harm on a member of a group characterized by its racial heritage or religious beliefs may rest comfortably with most Americans, who tend to react negatively against racial or religious bias, the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as categories has proved more challenging, perhaps because of the ambiguous social status of gay men, lesbians, and transgendered persons in American society, or, in the case of gender, the question of whether it is appropriate to consider crimes of rape or domestic violence, already fairly well-delineated in the criminal law, as hate crimes against women. Sponsor Message.
NOW Pushes To Increase Hate Crimes Prosecution 16 states have hate crimes laws that provide for enhanced penalties forhatemotivated offenses, and specifically include sexual orientation. http://www.now.org/nnt/05-97/hatecrimes.html
Extractions: Lesbian Rights Program Director Despite an increase in bias-motivated crimes, including the bombing of a lesbian bar in Atlanta, the federal government does not have the authority to investigate or prosecute offenses motivated by a person's real or perceived sex or sexual orientation. NOW is working to change that. In coalition with other civil rights organizations, NOW is lobbying members of Congress to amend the existing federal hate crimes criminal statute to include sexual orientation and gender-bias crimes. The coalition's unanimous decision to add gender was a radical change, inspired in part by the Atlanta bombings. It comes some eight years after NOW called the first meeting of coalition allies to discuss adding gender-motivated crimes to federal legislation. While other federal laws provide increased penalties and data collection for certain hate crimes, NOW is working to amend Section 245 of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code, which allows the federal government to investigate and prosecute bias-motivated crimes based on race, religion and ethnicity, but not sex or sexual orientation. The Atlanta lesbian bar bombing highlights the need for Section 245 to include both gender and sexual orientation. As is common with hate violence against lesbians, we may never know if the bombing was a targeted attack on women in general or lesbians in particular. Nevertheless, the federal government could only investigate the bombing because it was a serial attack following the bombing of an Atlanta abortion clinic. Otherwise, the FBI would have no jurisdiction to investigate the case as a hate crime. Lack of a Georgia hate crimes law also prevented a state-level investigation.
SPLCenter.org Discounting Hate all 50 states and the District of Columbia and asked them about specific incidentsthat were reported in the media but failed to show up in the FBI hate crime http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=157
Round Ups protected category. But roughly the same number of states exclude sexualorientation, and the remainder have no hate crimes laws at all. http://www.planetout.com/news/roundups/issues/hatecrimes.html
Extractions: Home Roundups Hate crimes in the news Lawyers make final remarks Araujo trial: Suspect defends self Araujo trial: Key witness challenged Araujo trial: Witness details party ... More PlanetOut coverage The Gwen Araujo case Hate crime hubbub Harassment in the military Hate crimes in your state Volunteer to stop violence Write your leaders Discuss public policy Sound off on the news Poll Are you concerned about being the victim of a hate crime? On October 7, 2003, the country marked the fifth anniversary of the brutal attack upon Matthew Shepard , a 21-year-old gay student who was tied to a fence and pistol-whipped in Laramie, Wyoming. His attackers left him on the fence, where he stayed, unconscious, for 16 hours before being discovered by a passer-by. He died of exposure and injuries five days later.
Civilrights.org Hate Crimes Why You Should Care. hate crimes remain a festering and horrifying problemin the Unites States. Although there are laws on the books http://www.civilrights.org/issues/hate/care.html
Extractions: showDate(11) Issues select an issue Affirmative Action Census CR Enforcement Criminal Justice Disability Education GLBT Hate Crimes Housing/Lending Human Rights Immigration Indigenous Peoples Info/Comm/Tech Judiciary Labor/ Working Families Poverty/Welfare Religious Freedom Social Security/Seniors Voting Rights Home Donate Now! About Campaigns ... Hate Crimes Hate Crimes Why You Should Care Status Report Why You Should Care Hate crimes remain a festering and horrifying problem in the Unites States. Although there are laws on the books to deter hate crimes and protect their victims, significant gaps remain unfilled Hate crimes are distinguished from bias motivated incidents, which, while not falling under the umbrella of a criminal act, are often precursors to actual hate crimes or contribute to a general atmosphere of hostility. The killings of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard , among other senseless acts of hatred, remind Americans that violence based on racial and other prejudices still occurs. Other brutal examples include a spree of hate-motivated shootings over the 1999 July 4th weekend in Illinois and Indiana, the murder of two gay men in California, and arson attacks on Sacramento synagogues. In August of 1999, a man with ties to white supremacist organizations is alleged to have opened fire at a Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles and murdered a Filipino-American postal worker. And on July 4, 2000, J.R. Warren
Perpetrators Of Hate 20 NAPALC, 12. 21 Rovella, David E. hate crime States Show Race is Key. TheNational Law Journal, 25 November 1996 A7. 22 Bennet, A20. 23 Bennet, A20. http://www.yale.edu/ypq/articles/dec97/dec97c.html
Extractions: In recent years, the United States has witnessed a substantial number of hate crimes arising out of a culture of racial tension. According to the best assessments, between 10,000 and 40,000 hate crimes occur annually in the United States, with about 60 percent of them ignited by racial bias. Involving defacement of property, arson, assault, and murder, hate crimes pose a more threatening danger to society than comparable non-bias crimes because they send negative political messages towards certain groups and aggravate community tensions. Recent incidents in Denver reflect the general proliferation of hate crimes in this country. On November 18th, a 19-year-old skinhead killed Oumar Dia, a black Mauritanian father of three, at a bus stop. Claiming responsibility for the shooting, the skinhead said in a television interview: "it didn't seem like much to me." He continued: "I guess I was kind of thinking about him because he was Black." During the previous week, Matthaeus Jaehnig, a member of an extremist group called the Denver Skins , killed a police officer and then committed suicide with the slain officer's gun. This rash of violence in Denver underscores the correlation between extremist groups and hate crimes.
Disproportionate Harm: Hate Crime In Canada Modifying the Revised Uniform crime Reporting System. United States hatecrime Act; Canadian hate crime Statistics Act (Proposed); Classification http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/canadian/canada/justice/disproportionate-harm/
Extractions: An Analysis of Recent Statistics The present study was funded by the Research and Statistics Section and the Law Reform Fund, Department of Justice Canada. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Justice Canada. Methodological Issues (Includes following) Classification Problems ... Findings (Includes following) Bibliography Appendix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This document was written to fulfil the terms of service contract 94-11-63 with the Department of Justice Canada. I would like to thank all the groups and individuals who supplied information to me, or who provided comments on earlier drafts of this report. [Julian Roberts - addresses omitted]
NLGJA Reporter S Toolbox When Is A Crime Hateful? In those states in which hate crime laws include sexual orientation or gender identity, hate crime is not a label that can be applied automatically even http://www.nlgja.org/pubs/toolbox_hatecrimes.htm
MenWeb - Battered Men: DV As A Hate Crime. more than a marital sport, this campaign treats all relationship conflict as a crime. dueto lobbying by advocacy groups, a majority of states expanded police http://www.vix.com/menmag/cyoungdv.htm
Extractions: In the fall of 1996, Susan Finkelstein's live-in boyfriend was arrested and charged with abusing her. Today, Susan, a 31-year-old free-lance editor in a small Midwestern town, feels that she was abused by the justice system. "I felt so helpless," she says. "I had no rights. Nobody listened to me, nobody wanted to hear my story." The tale sounds familiar enoughexcept that what angers Susan is not that her boyfriend was treated too leniently but that he was prosecuted at all. It all started when Susan and her boyfriend, a 44-year-old college administrator whom I'll call Jim, were having a heated argument on the way home from a party. Both of them, Susan explains, were under a great deal of stress. The quarrel escalated, and Jim decided it would be best to pull over. He wanted to get out of the car and walk, and Susan tried to stop him. "I lost my temper, he lost his temper, and we got into a mutual scuffle," she says. "I may have scratched him, he may have pushed me. It got physical, but there certainly wasn't any beating."
Family Research Council: Tuesday, June 8, 2004 "IS03K01" Georgia, Arkansas, and Louisiana have no such statute, yet in those states incidentsare down dramatically. In Delaware, hate crime climbed after a statute was http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS03K01
Partners Against Hate Requiring States to compile statistics on hate crimes. Additionally, many Statesprovide for special penalty enhancements of crimes motivated by hate. http://www.partnersagainsthate.org/hate_response_database/
Extractions: Search our database to find hate crimes statistics and laws around the country. Nearly every State has some form of statute that can be invoked to redress bias-motivated crimes. The majority of States have one or more of the following types of laws: Criminalizing vandalism of religious institutions. Outlawing bias-motivated violence and intimidation. Requiring law enforcement personnel to receive training in identifying and investigating hate crimes. Proscribing interference with another person's civil rights.
Hate Crime Policy Problems Twentyone states have hate crime laws that do not include sexualorientation, and eight have no hate crime statutes whatsoever. http://cjwww.csustan.edu/hatecrimes/99/policy/web page.html
Extractions: Hate Crimes Policy Problems created by: Tony Dominguez Chris Hagan David Lee Jason Wegman Nate Kutcher CLICK HERE TO GO TO PICTURE Congress defines hate crime as "a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person ." Section 28003(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994928 U.S.C. 994 note) Throughout our research of policy problems in hate crimes we found that is is very difficult to distinguish a hate crime. As you can see in the above definition, a hate crime is driven by hate towards a certain group. The problem comes when it is time to distinguish who has such hate in their mind and when their acts reflect their beliefs. It is hard for the for the criminal justice system to investigate the beliefs of someone. This creates a a great number of problems for law and policy makers, as well as law enforcement. Take a look at the below map and notice how there are still thirteen of our states without any known hate crime statutes. Even the state of Wyoming, which was the home of
Appendix : Hate Crime Laws, 1985-1997 ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, OR, RI, TX, UT, and WA; these states do not necessarily includesexual orientation in the criminal penalty aspect of their hate crime laws. http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~prex/app-hcl.html
Extractions: Appendix : State and Local Hate Crime Laws, 1979-2000 Year Jurisdiction Areas Covered Groups Status Covered Massachusetts In force (7 was added in 1996 by HB 5191 and SB 165; NGLTF 1997; signed by Governor 7/22/96; also adds persons with HIV/AIDS (LGLAGNY 1996h)) Oregon In force (7 was added in 1989 by HB 2784; Berrill 1992) Minnesota In force (expanded to allow (7 was added to statistics collection in 1988; civil suits in 1996 by and 7 was added to criminal penalties in 1989; also SB 606, passed in 1989, required includes s/o statistics collection and police training; (NGLTF 1997) Berrill 1992) California In force; part of (strengthened law with AB 63 in 1987; civil code 61.7 SB 911 in 1995 by allowing courts to order offenders in a counseling program) Seattle, WA In force Illinois In force Berrill 1992) Connecticut In force Maine (LD 1987) In force (expanded in 1991 to include data collection (Berrill 1992); sentencing classes were enhanced in 1995 under HB 592) New York In force (may have been 1986) Colorado In force Columbus, OH
SatireWire | VIRUS MAKING TO BE HATE CRIME In the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union vehemently opposedthe action, arguing it runs counter to the spirit of hate crime laws. http://www.satirewire.com/news/0112/hate_crime.shtml
Extractions: Systems Administrators Now On Front Lines of Bias Crime Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) yet another email virus spreading across the globe, 41 U.S. states and six European countries today announced that the act of creating an attachment-based computer virus will now be considered a hate crime because it intentionally targets stupid people. Hate crime victim Bob Fnork (center) is stunned to discover he has just opened another infected attachment. "In a hate crime, the offender is motivated by the victim's personal characteristics, and in the case of email viruses, the maker is clearly singling out those who open email attachments when they've been told a thousand times not to," said California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. "Like any other segment of the population, people of stupidity need protection from bias." The decision, however, is already causing a firestorm of controversy. In the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union vehemently opposed the action, arguing it runs counter to the spirit of hate crime laws.
Crime Data Sources In Criminal Justice All states have one of these grant and research clearinghouses. HateCrime Statistics The latest numbers available from the FBI. http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/data.htm
Extractions: COMPREHENSIVE SITES TOPICAL SITES STATE-BY-STATE SITES Advanced Statistics for Criminology/Criminal Justice ... Statistics Every Person Should Know Comprehensive Sources: Probably the most extensive source of information on criminal justice in the world. NCJRS is a group of clearinghouses supporting all the bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice , Office of Justice Programs , the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) , the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) , the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) , the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) , the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) , and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) . For federal prisoners, see the BOP Bridging Gaps in Police Data - pdf document by Michael Maltz Data Analysis in the Social Sciences - a short list of repositories, mostly polling data, from this Univ. of Texas site. Government Printing Office - Nearly 10,000 books, pamphlets for sale.
Campus Security & Crime Information Campus Security and crime Information, crime statistics are published annuallyand cover the previous three calendar years. The statistics http://cfdev.wm.edu/IR/crime_campus_security.htm
Extractions: Public Property Download All Crime Stats (xls) This information is provided in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (formerly the Campus Security Act of 1990), to inform students, faculty, employees, and the public about campus security. Crime statistics are published annually and cover the previous three calendar years. The statistics include not only those crimes reported to the Campus Police, but also those crimes reported to the Division of Student Affairs and other departments with significant responsibility for student activities. Additional information concerning these statistics is available from the Campus Police
Human Rights Watch: Human Rights After September 11 Français) (Español) Public officials tried vigorously to contain a wave of hatecrimes in the United States after September 11, Human Rights Watch said in a http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/
Extractions: We appreciate your efforts to clarify the Department of Defense's views. Nevertheless, we remain concerned that certain rules impose unjustifiable limitations on the right to counsel and effective representation, and as such are inconsistent with principles firmly embedded in U.S. constitutional law, the rules for courts-martial, and international human rights law. Your letter's explanations either fail to address our core objections or offer justifications that do not withstand scrutiny.
