Hate Crimes and the Homosexual Community Dontae Anderson Com/172 Professor Baker October 29th‚ 2012 Abstract In this paper I am talking about Hate crimes against the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. I show that though Hate crimes are classified as crimes that are evoked by sexual orientation‚ race‚ identity‚ gender‚ or religion. Hate crimes are more common amongst the gay and transgender men. I show states with highest conviction rate in 2012. I also show the upward
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Preventing Hate Crime in Schools Tami Arreguin COM/172 March 25‚ 2013 Jenifer Casey Preventing Hate Crime in Schools According to the National Center of Education Statistics‚ for the 2009-10 school years‚ 920 schools reported a total of 3‚220 incidents of hate crimes (Neiman & Hill‚ 2011). This statistic is way too high for our schools when there are plenty of anti-hate programs are available to help educate teachers and students. With the increase of hate crimes in schools it should
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Social Organized Crime Perspective Social Organized Crime Perspective Social institution is a group of people or association with a certain reason‚ objective‚ or mission. This organization reaches its goal by influencing and persuading people in the public to take part‚ and help with reaching this purpose. Social institution applies to organized crime in various ways. Criminal organizations develop in areas that show a portion of individuals living within the jurisdiction are interested in a
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An example of this would be the increase in hate crimes by “as much as 88%” This hate has stemmed from the age-old principles of American Conservatives‚ to hate any foreigners. “From the Italian to the Jews‚ Conservatives have always been unaccepting.” Hate crimes against Muslims have increased dramatically since 2001. Statistics say that hate crimes against Muslims went up 90% immediately after 9/11. These hate crimes played a very significant role in making Middle Eastern people
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Hate crimes and white collar crimes are two kind of crimes that are unique and require special attention. Though hate crime laws may have been just put into place a few decades ago‚ hate crimes are not a new type of crime it has been part of our society for a very long time now. Hate crimes are not just limited to crimes against people but it also extends to sacred objects. Hate crimes are sometimes hard to prove in the court of law because it has to show motivation mindset to do someone or something
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disturbing image; the unfortunate result of a hate crime. What exactly is a hate crime? The American Psychological Association defines hate crimes as "violent acts against people‚ property‚ or organizations because of the group to which they belong or identify with" (1). The different groups usually involved include homosexuals‚ ethnic groups‚ and religion affiliations. Dr. Jack McDevitt‚ a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston‚ said hate crimes are forms of messages the offender wants to
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article Social Construction of Crime‚ the social construction is define as a theoretical position that cuts across a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields‚ including sociology‚ psychology‚ psychotherapy‚ women’s studies‚ queer studies‚ the history and philosophy of science‚ narrative philosophy‚ and literary theory‚ among others . Besides‚ this article also said that every single thing that human do in their live such as sleep is counted as social facts. From this article‚ the social constructionist
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Katiya Mountcastle February 14‚ 2012 Criminal Justice Frank Plunkett HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE HOMELESS In the past twelve years (1999-2010)‚ the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) has documented one thousand‚ one hundred eighty-four acts of violence against homeless individuals by housed perpetrators. These crimes are believed to be motivated by the perpetrators’ bias against homeless individuals or their ability to target homeless people with relative ease. The documented violence
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Hate Crimes Meshanda Rolland-Avera COM/172 March 21‚ 2012 Ms. Valery Reed Hate Crimes Hate crimes are many different criminal acts such as vandalism‚ arson‚ assault‚ and even murder. Many hate crimes are based on an individual’s race‚ gender‚ religion‚ age‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnicity‚ and disabilities. Everyone can be potential victims of hate crimes. Anyone from any social class can be considered targets for hate crimes. If you or a group believes in a different religion or speaks a different
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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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