felony chargers. Not only did he get charged with crimes‚ his mom had to pay the victims money for the damage and he got an extra year of probation because it was labeled as a “Hate Motivated Crime”. Hates crimes should be taken more seriously and should have a harsher punishment. If you get a harsher punishment people will think twice about committing hate crimes. Hate crimes should have harsher punishment because it would stop the majority of crimes committed towards a race or religion‚ because
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Hate crime‚ also known as bias crime‚ is a criminal act committed against a person‚ property‚ or society which is motivated by the perpetrator ’s bias against a race‚ religion‚ disability‚ sexual orientation or ethnicity/national origin. Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 on April 23 of that same year in response to growing national concern over crimes motivated by bias. The Act requires the Attorney General to "collect data about crimes that show evidence of prejudice based
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Thesis Statement Guide What is your thesis statement? ___Hate crimes are fueled by a lack of knowledge towards an individual’s sex‚ race‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ or disability I. Introduction II. First main point – What does society’s definition of a hate crime A. Supporting details- The origin of hate crimes in the United States 1. Subdetails- The purveyors instrument when perpetrating hate crimes A. Who commits these acts and why
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strongly disagree with crimes that are made depending on what the crime is. There is many types of crimes in our world nowadays. Some people get away with them and some do not. We all think crimes are different and may disagree with what crimes we think are more important. A few months ago there was a video of a man drowning in the lake while three men teenagers filmed the man drowning. You could hear laughing in the back‚ I thought this video was very disturbing. I consider this a crime in my opinion‚ but
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not then it may result into fights or anything worst than that‚ could get someone involved illegal crime‚ and creates hate crime. This shows that schools should limit how students express themselves. One reason‚ is it could result into fights or worse than that. My evidence is that “it remains free to express any view about race‚ religion‚ sexuallity‚ disabillity or any other topic”(Do Hate Crime...). This shows that it could be offensive to people what one person is saying. Another piece of evidence
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us under extremism. Religious diversity has been the cause of war‚ hate‚ and crime all throughout history. Nothing brings people together like sharing mutual passion for what they believe in. Similarly‚ it can tear even the strongest nations apart. At a time when most of us like to believe we are more tolerant than generations before‚ hate crimes and religious related incidents are actually on the rise in many places. This hate is often powered by an ignorance stemming from a stigma attached to
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Crimes committed against an individual that were wholly or in part based on the victim’s race‚ religion‚ ethnicity or sexual orientation are all classified as hate crimes. Targets of these crimes include‚ individuals‚ businesses‚ or even society as a whole.(fbi.gov) “Hate crime legislation at the federal or state level takes on four specific forms: (1) statutes defining hate crimes as substantive offenses‚ (2) sentence enhancement‚ (3) statistics collection‚ and (4) civil remedies.” (” www.ncjrs
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Hate. We all say hate all the time. For example‚ if you having an argument with your friend‚ you might say‚ “I hate you!” Do you mean it? No‚ you say it because you are mad. Also‚ if you are forced to do something‚ you might say‚ “I hate that.” Even worse‚ there are hate crimes because of someone’s color‚ religion or disability. The FBI statistics Report about hate crimes stated 53.6% were racial‚ 18.2% were religious‚ and 11.4% were against the disabled. These types of crimes have been going
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When the Hate Crime Statistics Act was passed‚ signed into law and reauthorized‚ it did not include hate crimes against women as a class (The Leadership Conference ). Since there is no official inclusion of gender-based crimes associated with the Hate Crime Statistics Act‚ the statistics and tracking of increase or decrease of these crimes are not apart of federal law or the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) of hate crime and remain unknown (Criminal Justice). However‚ there are still various hate crimes
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The history of hate crimes against African-Americans can date back all the way until slavery. However‚ I will discuss those more recent within the last 50 years. During the Civil Rights Movement some of the most violence acts against African Americans occur. 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed African Americans in Confederate states still dealt with inequality‚ segregation‚ oppression and race-inspired violence. In fact legally by way of the “Jim Crow” laws‚ African-Americans
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