Types of Hate Crimes and Hate Groups
What is a hate crime?
When someone tries to hurt someone else with weapons like fire or firearms for who they are.
NCVS grabs information from surveys about crimes experienced and even the ones that were not reported?
True or False?
True
Many states have hate crime laws with added penalties?
True or False?
True
Have these Hate Crime Prevention laws eliminated hate crimes?
No
What % of Hate crimes are racially motivated?
46.9%
What is a high priority of the Civil Rights Program of the FBI?
Investigating hate crimes
What are examples for reasons people are targeted by hate crimes?
Race, Color, Religion, Genders, Disabilities and for many other reasons.
Why cant the UCR not report unreported crimes?
Because of the "Hierarchy rule"
(puts the more severe crimes at the top of priorities)
what have Municipal Police Departments dedicated within their organization?
Hate-crime units
When Congress passed the Hate Crimes statistics Act in 1990, what did it do?
Forced the police to collect statistics
NCVS hate-related victimization's are based on what?
What the victim believes what the offenders motive was
It is important to prove motive as it is to proving _______
method
Mathew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was made to do what?
Help investigate and Prosecute hate crimes
Why is it impossible to figure out the statistical extent problem?
Because their is two different datasets providing two different pictures
What are responses to hate crimes?
changes in legislation, enhancing law enforcement training for responding to such crimes, investigation, prosecution, and prevention of hate crimes, and diversity and tolerance education programs