Hate Crimes and Terrorism in the United States
Crimes committed by hate groups or offenders and those committed by terrorist groups are often very similar, both in method and in effect. For example, a...
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Hate Crimes
Crimes of violence motivated by hatred based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation have always been a part of the American political landscape. At various times legis...
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Two bicyclists were riding down a country road in Wyoming in early October 1998 when they noticed what appeared to be a scarecrow tied spread-eagle to a split-rail fence. Upon further investigation, t...
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On the night of February 19, 1999, in Sylacuaga, Alabama, Steve Mullins asked his friend Charles Butler to help him kill an acquaintance named Billy Jack Gaither. Butler agreed and watched Mullins bea...
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We live in a time where image is everything, where people are hated because they look and dress differently or have different ways of life, as a result of these things we find hate crimes. A hate crim...
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Glen was a wonderful person whom everyone loved. No one every expected that he would some day be the victim of a horrible hate crime. Glen was a homosexual and some people didn't like that at all. ...
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Everyone uses stereotypes. "From white men can't jump, to blacks are good athletes, but poor students, and Italians are emotional" (Levy 6). These are all common stereotypes about different racial an...
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