Hate crime

Hate Crime

This chapter addresses some of the main issues related to hate crime, beginning with defining them and distinguishing them from hate speech Hate crime is sometimes also called by other names such as “bias crime” or “ethnic intimidation.” …

Hate crime victimization, 2004-2015

Lynn Langton, Ph. D., BJS Statistician In 2015, the rate of violent hate crime victimization was 0.7 hate crimes per 1,000 persons age 12 or older (figure 1). This rate was not significantly different from the rate in 2004 (0.9 per 1,000). 1 The …

‘I will blow your face OFF’—VIRTUAL and physical world anti-muslim hate crime

Anti-Muslim hate crime is usually viewed in the prism of physical attacks; however, it also occurs in a cyber context, and this reality has considerable consequences for victims. In seeking to help improve our understanding of anti-Muslim hate crime, …

Causes and motivations of hate crime

Causes and motivations of Equality and Human Rights Commission Research report 102 Mark A. Walters and Rupert Brown with Susann Wiedlitzka, University of Sussex hate crime Page 2. Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2918883 Causes …

Mental health of transgender veterans in US states with and without discrimination and hate crime legal protection

Objectives. To examine whether indicators of community-and state-level lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality are associated with transgender veterans mental health. Methods. We extracted Veterans Administration data for patients who were …