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HATE CRIME

TOPIC# 1

Present by: allyson a. ebbah


GRADE 10 ST ,ANTHONY
What is a Hate Crime?

A hate crime is defined as “any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim
or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice” based on one of
five categories : religion, faith or belief; race, ethnicity or nationality; sexual
orientation; disability; or gender identity.
(Home Office, Oct.21,2020)
“Hate Crime” generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been
motivated by bias against one or more of the social group listed above , or by bias
against their derivatives . Incidents may involve physical assault , homicide ,
damage to property , bullying , harassment , verbal abuse or insults , mate crime,
or offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail).
( Streissguth, Tom (2003). Hate Crimes (Library in
a Book), p. 3. ISBN 0-8160-4879-7.)
Who is Protected?
People who have been victim of a crime and were targeted because
of their actual or perceived membership in one of the following
protected cases:
Race Religion
Color National Religion
Creed Disability (mental
Ancestry or physical)
Sexual Gender Identity
Orientation
(CCHR , May. 30,2020)
Types of Hate Crime

Incitement to
Physical Assault Verbal Abuse Hatred
Physical assault of any Verbal abuse is a type of The offence of
kind is an offence, psychological/mental incitement to hatred
which should be abuse that involves the occurs when someone
reported. Depending use of oral, gestured, and
acts in a way that is
on the level of written language directed
to a victim. Verbal abuse threatening and
violence used, a can include the act of intended to stir up
perpetrator may be harassing, labeling, hatred. That could be in
charged with common insulting, scolding, words, pictures, videos
assault, actual bodily rebuking, or excessive or music and includes
harm or grievous yelling towards an information posted on
bodilyop.
harm. individual. (Shoshan , websites.
Nitzan (2008), The
(MacDonald, cit,p.155;Smart (TheFreeDictionary.com.Retri
v. HM Advocate 1975 JC 30) eved 8 August 2021) University of Chicago, p. 183, ISNB
9780549931096)
Example of Hate Crime

You are walking down the street and a


man comes towards you with a baseball
bat and yells a racial slur at you.

You come out of your home to find the


windshield of your car is smashed and a
racist message is keyed into the paint.

When checking your voicemail, you


retrieve a message from an unknown
caller who threatens you with physical
harm because of your national origin.

(CCHR , May. 30,2020)


Psychological Effects
Hate crimes can have significant and wide raging
psychological consequences, not only for their
direct victims but for others as well. A (1999 U.S
study) of lesbian and gay victims of violent hate
crimes documented that they experienced higher
levels of psychological distress including
symptoms of depression and anxiety ,than lesbian
and gay victims of comparable crimes which are
not motivated by antigay bias. Hate crime victims
can also develop depression and psychological
Impacts on the individual victim
Psychological and affective disturbances; repercussions
on the victim’s identity and self-esteem; both reinforced
by a specific hate crime’s degree of violence, which is
usually stronger than that a common crime.

Effects in the targeted group


Generalized terror in the group to which the victim
belong, inspiring feelings of vulnerability among its
other members ,who could be the next hate crime
victims.
Effects on the community as a whole
Divisions and factionalism arising in response to hate
crimes are particularly damaging to multicultural
societies.
References
Home Office, Oct.21,2020

Streissguth, Tom (2003). Hate Crimes (Library in a


Book), p. 3. ISBN 0-8160-4879-7.

CCHR , May. 30,2020

MacDonald, op. cit,p.155;Smart v. HM Advocate 1975


JC 30

TheFreeDictionary.com.Retrieved 8 August 2021

Shoshan , Nitzan (2008), The University of Chicago, p.


183, ISNB 9780549931096
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