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Hate has plagued mankind since before civilization. ... Groups like the KKK, Skin Heads, and the Neo Nazi’s have been the most recent published hate groups, and are very up front about their views and beliefs. ... While it may be impossible for law abiding citizens to understand how people could hate other’s so much, it is easy to see the destruction, pain, and death as its outcome. Many believe it isn’t important why people hate others, what is important is preventing criminal acts motivated by their hate. ... Unfortunately it is difficult to define “hate crime”. It’s a controversial issue, not everyone agrees on what constitutes a hate crime, or if the category is even needed to punish offenders.
Crime motivated by bias was dubbed “Hate Crime” in 1985 during legislation focused on new hate crime statistics. ... So defining and identifying a hate crime can be a difficult task.
Hate crime isn’t a new problem, so why is it such a big issue today? What is the difference between two similar crimes that makes one of them a hate crime? If identification is difficult how can data be accurately collected on hate crime statistics? ... However hate crime is not a black and white issue, its complicated and creates many problems for law enforcement agencies. ...
In the US, hate crimes have mostly been inspired by racial and religious biases. Hate in the US goes all the way back to when Europeans started colonizing America in the 16th and 17th centuries, Native Americans increasingly became the targets of intimidation and violence. ... These are some of the more typical examples of hate crimes in the US but even these are only the tip of the iceberg. More and more hate crimes are reported ever year, although that doesn’t necessarily mean it is increasing, but I’ll get more into that later.
Since the mid-1980s, the issue of hate crimes in the US has received increasing public concern, mostly because of several incidents receiving high media attention. ...
Today it seems that hate crimes have increased exponentially since the 1980’s. However, in reality hate crimes have just become more visible as victims have began standing up for their rights. Before the 1980’s few victims reported hate crimes to authorities. ...
Besides the problem of unreported crimes, identifying a hate crime is difficult in itself. To understand a hate crime we must look at the situation, perpetrator, and victim. Even this isn’t easy to define, a murderer often “hates” their victim, but does that mean it is a hate crime? No, so we have to look deeper and analyze the details of the crime.
Approximate Word count = 2197
Approximate Pages = 8.8
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