Hate crime


A hate crime also known as the bias-motivated crime or bias crime is the prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership or perceived membership of asocial group or racial demographic.

Examples of such(a) groups can include, and are almost exclusively limited to physical appearance, age, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called "bias incidents".

"Hate crime" generally pointed to criminal acts which are seen to earn been motivated by bias against one or more of the social groups specified above, or by bias against their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, homicide, loss to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse which includes slurs or insults, mate crime, or offensive graffiti or letters hate mail.

A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. hate speech laws criminalize a category of speech.

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Motivation


Sociologists Jack McDevitt as well as Jack Levin's 2002 examine into the motives for hate crimes found four motives, and exposed that "thrill-seeking" accounted for 66 percent of all hate crimes overall in the United States: