State rarely prosecutes hate crime cases

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 30, 2007 ;     605 words ......killer admits; Hate crime still being...charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor...Charging a hate crime - targeting...police believe a hate crime occurred, it...necessarily make it a hate crime," said Steven...The FBI says hate crime ...

NO HATE CRIME CHARGE UPSETS HMONG MURDER VICTIM WAS TARGETED FOR RACE,...

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......killer admits; Hate crime still being...charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor...Charging a hate crime - targeting...police believe a hate crime occurred, it...necessarily make it a hate crime, said Steven...The FBI says hate crime ...

HMONG LEADERS: CHARGE KILLING AS A HATE CRIME HATE CRIMES AREN'T USUALLY...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......killer admits; Hate crime still being...charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor...Charging a hate crime -- targeting...police believe a hate crime occurred, it...necessarily make it a hate crime, said Steven...The FBI says hate crime ...

Words alone don't make hate crime

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 8, 1998 ;     620 words ...When a 15-year-old boy is charged with a hate crime, we all should ask ourselves why. Of...was white. The 15-year-old who had the hate crime provision added to his charges allegedly...skinheads. (The 18-year-old also had the hate crime provision added to his charges. His case...

Campaign to tackle hate crime culprits.(News)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  May 21, 2008 ;     360 words ......Reporter A CAMPAIGN to crack down on hate crime is under way with thousands of special...encouraged to report all incidents of hate crime in a bid to stop the problem before it...and community groups to launch the Stop Hate Crime campaign. They hope that by offering...

FBI RELEASES 2006 HATE CRIME STATISTICS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 19, 2007 ;     373 words ......Reporting Program, Hate Crime Statistics, 2006, includes data from hate crime reports submitted by...throughout the nation. Hate Crime Statistics, 2006, includes...There were 5,449 hate crime offenses classified...crimes. * Of the 3,593 hate crime offenses ...

FBI RELEASES ITS 2005 STATISTICS ON HATE CRIME

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 16, 2006 ;     412 words ......mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2005, published...includes data from hate crime reports submitted by...throughout the Nation. Hate Crime Statistics, 2005, includes...disability. There were 5,190 hate crime offenses classified...crimes. Of the 3,109 hate ...

FBI RELEASES 2007 HATE CRIME STATISTICS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 27, 2008 ;     338 words ......or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, published...includes data from hate crime reports submitted by...throughout the nation. Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, includes...There were 5,408 hate crime offenses classified...There were 3,579 hate crime ...

FBI reports hate crime incidents up

Charleston Daily Mail;  November 20, 2007 ;     174 words ...WASHINGTON - Hate crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent last year, the FBI reported Monday, as civil rights advocates increasingly take to the streets to protest...in the report. Only 12,600 of the nation's more than 17,000 local, county, state and federal police agencies participated in the hate ...

Hate crime incidents rise 1.5%, FBI reports

Organized Crime Digest;  February 16, 2001 ;     131 words ......reported a 1.5 percent increase in hate-crime incidents that included 17 murders in...incidents, up from 7,755 in 1998. Hate crime incidents declined for the two previous...The FBI said one notorious hate crime in 1999 involved five white...

Hate-crime statistics distort truth of American tolerance. (fair...

Insight on the News;  January 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Recently released FBI hate-crime data show that crimes against Arabs...it needs to be pointed out that hate-crime statistics are politically stacked...A. Determining what constitutes a hate crime leads to all manner of logical absurdities...

Was graffiti a prank or a hate crime?(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to recognize it as a hate crime and should change the...graffiti qualifies as a hate crime in the state of Illinois...doesn't support it. Hate crime? The graffiti had been...the criteria for a hate crime. The state statute spells out that a hate crime is ...

The social construction of a hate crime epidemic.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......definitions vary from state to state, hate crime generally means a crime against persons...States is experiencing an across-the-board hate crime epidemic. The use of the epidemic metaphor...meant to dramatize a sharply accelerating hate crime rate. Assertions that a hate ...

Hate Crime Laws Unevenly Enforced, Report Concludes

Precinct Reporter;  October 28, 2004 ;     521 words ...Precinct Reporter 10-28-2004 California's hate crime laws - among the oldest and most comprehensive...and sheriff departments do not have a hate crime policy to guide their implementation...with the responsibility of enforcing hate crime statutes. "This is reminiscent of the...

Experts contemplate hate crime meaning, Logan prosecutor hasn't decided...

Charleston Daily Mail;  September 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......remains unclear if hate crime charges will be filed...annual publication of hate crime statistics, which presents...not pursue federal hate crime charges while Logan...be classified as a hate crime for analytical and symbolic purposes. "It is a hate crime, ...