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Article: Hate crime.(SECTION II: Offenses Reported)(Statistical data)
- Article from:
- Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Definition
A hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/ national origin.
Background
In response to mounting national concern over crimes motivated by bias, Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990. The law directed the Attorney General to collect data "about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." The Attorney General delegated the responsibility for developing and ...