ADL Hails Passage of Bill Mandating Enhanced Hate Crime Reporting on...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 14, 2008 ;     360 words ......George W. Bush, mandates improved hate crime data collection and reporting at colleges...includes an important new campus hate crime data collection mandate, is an important...inconsistent with the FBI's campus hate crime data. The new law is designed to ...

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...

'A Setback' in Reporting Hate Crime in the U.S.

ADL on the Frontline;  October 1, 2006 ;     426 words ......and Phoenix - did not submit hate crime data. She also noted that thousands...lawmakers and educators to improve hate crime data collection and to expand efforts...and Phoenix to provide their hate crime data to the FBI as quickly as possible...

State rarely prosecutes hate crime cases

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 30, 2007 ;     605 words ......Hmong groups are bad,'killer admits; Hate crime still being sought," read the headline...hunting - hasn't been charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor says he won't for "strategic...without explaining further. Charging a hate crime - targeting someone because of race...

If you're a victim of hate crime, tell police

Bristol Evening Post;  September 8, 2004 ;     233 words ......leading a new drive to encourage victims of hate crime to come forward. The True Vision project...forces throughout England and Wales. Hate crime is any incident committed against a person...disability or sexuality. Some 500,000 hate crime reporting packs have already been ...

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

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Hmong groups are bad,' killer admits; Hate crime still being sought, read the headline...hunting - hasn't been charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor says he won't for strategic...without explaining further. Charging a hate crime - targeting someone because of race...

ADL Says FBI 2005 Hate Crime Statistics 'Clearly Incomplete'; Report 'A...

U.S. Newswire;  October 16, 2006 ;     502 words ......cities in America did not submit hate crime data. ADL said the fact that New York...past 15 years." The 2005 FBI hate crime data documented 7,163 hate crimes...lawmakers and educators to improve hate crime data collection and to expand efforts...

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...needs to be pointed out that hate-crime statistics are politically...Determining what constitutes a hate crime leads to all manner of logical...income? The first would be a hate crime. The second ...

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

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Hmong groups are bad,' killer admits; Hate crime still being sought, read the headline...hunting -- hasn't been charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor says he won't for strategic...without explaining further. Charging a hate crime -- targeting someone because of race...

The social construction of a hate crime epidemic.

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

New Indiana hate crime bill likely to reignite debate

University Wire;  November 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......could take to prosecute the offender for a hate crime due to Indiana's current lack of hate crime legislation. Despite efforts earlier this...of only five states in the nation without hate crime laws. That is something Indiana State Rep...

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...publication of hate crime statistics, which...pursue federal hate crime charges while...classified as a hate crime for analytical...purposes. "It is a hate crime, but it doesn...the National Hate ...

ATTORNEY GENERAL LOCKYER ANNOUNCES HATE CRIME OFFENSES DECLINED 4.5...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 19, 2006 ;     690 words ......General Bill Lockyer today announced that hate crime offenses in California declined by 4...fourth consecutive year that the number of hate crime offenses has decreased, and the 10 year...over prejudice and hate." In addition to hate crime offenses reported by law enforcement...