Terminology
Why'd They Do It?
True/False
Miscellaneous
100
A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
Hate Crime
100
In the summer of 1998, several men dragged an African-American man, James Byrd Jr., from a pickup truck for three miles. The men were believed to be white supremacists.
Racial hate crime
100
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 gives the FBI authority to investigate violent hate crimes, including violence directed at the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.
True
100
Name three ways hate crimes can be exhibited
Verbal abuse, physical abuse, or threats
200
Verbal, written, or physical behaviors which are not criminal offenses, but target a person because of their actual or perceived identity or group membership(s) and may be in violation of a University policy.
Bias Incident
200
David Kato, a well-known defender of homosexual rights was hammered and beaten to death.
Sexual orientation/belief hate crime
200
Every month, a cross is burned somewhere.
False; every week a cross gets burned.
200
The difference between a hate crime and a bias incident.
Hate crimes are criminal and bias incidents are not.
300
An incident committed against a person or property that is motivated, in part or in whole, by the offender’s bias based on race, religion.
Verified Incident
300
Attacking someone because of their religion or even for a lack of religious belief
Religious hate crime
300
All 50 states have laws against hate crimes
False; currently there are 45 states and Washington D.C. that have laws against hate crimes
300
The greatest number of hate crimes is committed against this race.
African Americans
400
An incident in which the evidence is conflicting, incomplete, or otherwise insufficient to classify as verified or unfounded.
Inconclusive Incident
400
In January 2009, three men reportedly harassed several African Americans and a Hispanic man because of their political support for Obama and physically attacked three others. The final victim was mistaken for an African American and spent several weeks in a coma after being hit by their car.
Racial and political hate crime
400
Half of all the hate crimes in the nation are committed by people between the ages of 15 and 24
True
400
_____, ___, and ___ men were the most common hate-crime targets.
Black, Jewish, and gay men For race and ethnicity-related incidents, anti-black bias accounted for 1,745 of the 3,310 such incidents recorded, or around 53 percent. For crimes motivated by religious bias, anti-Jewish sentiment was by far the most common prejudice, accounting for 664 of the 1,244 identified incidents, or 53.4 percent. For sexual orientation-related incidents, Anti-gay male bias accounted for 664 of the reported 1,053 sexual-orientation based incidents, or 63 percent.
500
A reported act in which the evidence or investigation definitely indicates that it was not motivated by racial, religious, ethnic, sexual orientation, disability, or homeless status bias, or that the incident did not occur.
Unfounded Incident
500
Attacking someone because of their accent or the way they speak because they are not originally from here.
Nationality hate crime
500
Nearly two-thirds of all hate crimes involved no physical violence.
True; Of all 2015 incidents that the FBI deemed hate crimes, a little more than one third—36.5 percent—involved some sort of physical violence against an individual or group of individuals. Simple assault accounted for 24.5 percent of all incidents, aggravated assault for 11.6 percent, rape for 0.22 percent, and murder for 0.14 percent.
500

Who where the men that killed Emmett Till?

Roy Bryant and John Milam

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