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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Hate Crime"”.
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Disability hate crime and social work
… Fiscal Service, instances of disability hate crime in Scotland have been rising since 2010. The reasons for this have yet to be fully explored in research, although there is a strong belief amongst those working with disabled people, that the vast majority of such incidents go unreported. …
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Navigating Hate: The Public Deliberation of Matthew Shepard and Hate Crime Legislation
… has been recirculated to justify a federal hate crime statute and Shepard has been used as a symbol for the demand for hate crime legislation. This study seeks to evaluate how Shepard is used in public deliberation, the role of private organizations in the public deliberation of hate crime …
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The Integral Role of Training in the Implementation of Hate Crime Legislation
… law enforcement training and implementation of hate crime legislation. The Anti-Defamation League's state hate crime statutory provisions and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Hate Crime Reporting by States data are examined. Section one includes the following: What Constitutes Hate?, The …
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On the periphery of hate crime: disability at the intersections of marginalisation, vulnerability and difference
… explores the nature and impact of disability hate crime from the perspective of disabled people, victims and key informants from criminal justice and other agencies. The evidence base included two focus groups with disabled people, an online anonymous questionnaire with 83 disabled …
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Hate crime law & social contention : a comparison of nongovernmental knowledge practices in Canada & the United States
Hate crime laws in both Canada and the United States purport to promote equality using the language of antidiscrimination law. National criminal codes in both countries authorize enhanced punishment for crimes motivated by “sexual orientation” but not “gender identity” or “gender expression.” …
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Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help
I explore the relationships between hate group activity, community factors, and the likelihood of hate crime occurrence within a county area. I integrate considerations raised by Routine Activity and Social Control theorists as well as current hate crime literature to frame my concept of the hate …
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Addressing Deficiencies in Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate Crime Reporting: Designing a Solution for Community Needs
… of anti-AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) hate incidents and violence in the US, as documented in both governmental and NGO data. According to available data, the majority of these incidents occurred in public spaces and often to more vulnerable populations such as women and the elderly. …
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Hate By Numbers: Exploring Hate Crime Reporting Across Crime Type And Among Special Interest Groups Using The NCVS
Hate crimes are of particular harm to both individual victims and the communities they represent but are difficult to measure due to challenges facing data collection and reporting to police. The National Crime Victimization Survey, or NCVS, is an important tool for gathering data regarding crime …
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Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada
… violence against women have been overlooked in hate crime research. In an attempt to fill a gap in the hate crime, violence against women, and policing hate crime literature, I examine how nine police officers understand gender-motivated violence in Canada using vignettes, sentence-competition …
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The emergence and development of Disability Hate Crime policy and practice in England and Wales : a case of an unsettled and unsettling policy agenda
… the emergence and development of Disability Hate Crime as a policy area in the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It did this through building an understanding of the contributory factors including the challenges within the criminal justice system, wider government and politics, …
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An exploration of the impact of LGBT+ representative mock-juries on mock-juror bias and guilty verdicts in transphobic hate crime cases
… aggravated offences be extended to transphobic hate crimes, but failed to address the lack of jury diversity. Furthermore, the LC acknowledged some aggravated offences have disproportionately higher sentence maxima (which research shows can negatively influence conviction rates). Three …
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Hate: Juror Perceptions of Crime Classification, Attributions of Blame, and Impact of Extra-Legal Factors
… was employed in this series of studies exploring hate crime. In the first two studies., crime label (i.e., bias-motivated assault ·vs. first degree assault) and victim gender were varied within the context of a sexual orientation motivated (study 1) or gender motivated (study 2) hate crime …
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Surviving Disablist Hate Rape : Barriers, Intersectionalities and Collective Interventions with Disabled Women in the North of England.
This thesis investigates the aftermath of hate crimes involving rape, perpetrated against disabled women in the North of England. Disabled women are much more likely to experience sexual violence than non-disabled women or disabled men; they experience higher rates of re-victimisation and …
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The Relationship between State-Level Policy and Mental Health among Sexual Minority Youth in the United States
… effect of state-level policies, pertaining to hate crimes and mental health care, on the association between sexual orientation and the prevalence of depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and bullying amongst adolescents. State-level policies included whether hate crime laws included …
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
… that led to the passage of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in Texas. In 2001, the socially conservative Texas Legislature passed and equally conservative Republican Governor Rick Perry signed the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, which added race, color, religion, national origin, and “sexual …
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A critical appraisal of the engagement process between the police and adults with learning difficulties in South Wales
… has been placed upon the police, in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Home Office, 2004), to engage all sections of the community in order to discover their particular needs and priorities. The process of engaging all members of the community can be difficult for the police, as some …
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Bias blindness: How police see and don't see hate crimes
This study examines how police see and don't see hate crimes. Prior research has drawn mainly on the ambiguity of hate crime laws and definitions, as well as the struggles endured by law enforcement when investigating these cases. This thesis delves deeper into the issue by analyzing the forces …
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Eventalizing Berlin Anti-homophobia Policy in the Racialized and Sexualized "Social Curriculum of Germanness"
… in the wider public debates around “homophobic hate-crime” in Berlin in the early 2000’s. I trace how the discourse on “homophobia-as-violence” interlocks in these social and political debates with the “social curriculum of Germanness” to produce three affectively charged figures through and …
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How to Address the Inadequacies in the Protection of Transgender Female Refugees in Countries of Refuge?
… This disconnect is further fueled by the lack of hate crime in the international arena as a tool to enforce and protect transgender female refugees. Lastly, it was further seen that South Africa, as a country of refuge for African transgender refugees, provides a good example of ways in which the …
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