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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Hate crimes"”.
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Socio-Economic Structural Conditions and Hate Crimes
… community characteristics that affect bias or hate crimes in Los Angeles County. In evaluating the relationships among racial groups of White, Latino, and Black in 84 cities, two arguments are proposed and tested. First, bias crimes are a unique social construct and phenomenon that occurs as a …
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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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Student Perceptions of Hate Crimes Against LGBT Persons: A Victimological Inquiry
Hate crimes against LGBT people are a serious human rights issue worldwide. They have profound effects on the mental, social, and academic well-being of victims. In South Africa, even with a progressive constitution that protects sexual orientation and gender identity, violence, discrimination, and …
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The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
… ideologies. Using two separate incidents of hate crimes resulting in death, this study looks at newspaper articles from two distinct locations (North Carolina and Florida). The 1990 murder of Talana Quay Kreeger and the 2010 murder of Courtney Elizabeth Bright are analyzed in order to …
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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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THE UNTOLD STORIES: An exploration of police views regarding the policing of LGBTQI+ hate crimes in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
… and Queer (LGBTIQ+) individuals who experience hate-related incidents based on their sexual orientation and gender identity expression (SOGIE) do not report their cases to the police for fear of secondary victimisation. Much of the complaints against the police cite homophobic and heterosexist …
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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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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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Racism and Abjection in the (Post) Colony
… and legislation, Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. In this sense, Get Out, will be considered as a narrative which questions South Africa’s contemporaneity as a (post)colonial and (post)apartheid state and the limits of the law by comparing and contrasting the film …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
… I argue that in certain cases of evil, such as hate crimes, the intended act is not as "personal", "individual" and "freely chosen" as it is readily assumed by the Augustinian-Kantian treatments. I further argue that in cases where evil is socially produced, e.g. in cases of hate crimes, …
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Tolerance of Diversity, Collective Efficacy, and Criminal Victimization on a College Campus
Victimization and hate crimes are becoming more prominent on America's college campuses. Indeed, nearly 20,000 crimes of violence, and over 600 hate crimes, occurred on and around university campuses in 2003 (Department of Education 2004). Given its inverse relationship to crime at the aggregate …
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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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Exploring the Correlation between Civil Unrest and the Mobilization of Hate in the United States
The mobilization of hate in the United States has greatly ramped up since 2000. There are a lot of factors that go into why hate crimes continue to persist, but civil unrest seems to be one of the biggest factors. Through correlation analyses and regressions, we see that different types of civil …
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That Could Be Me: Asian Adoptee Identity Formation and Violence
… and events including 20th-century US-Asia wars, hate crimes, mass shootings, sexual violence, bullying, microaggressions, harassment, and more. This research includes violence that is experienced on not only an interpersonal level such as direct physical and psychological violence, but also on a …
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Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian media: a comparative content analysis of major news outlets
… in Canada. This study addresses the rise in hate crimes and islamophobia which is often fueled by mass media’s misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis headlines were taken from The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and National Post. The …
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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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The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina
… achieved, and measure their success by analyzing hate crimes statistics and public opinion surveys that show how the LGBTQ community is perceived and treated in Argentina. I argue that the goals pursued by the country’s activists support an idea of equality and rights that results from neoliberal …
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Patriotism Among Muslim American Opinion Leaders
… the NYPD's spying on MSAs, and the increase of hate crimes occurring at varying places of worship. This study explores how messages of Americanness and patriotism are transmitted from opinion leaders to their followers among Muslim Americans. Through interviewing opinion leaders from a …
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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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Násilná kriminalita a její prevence
… I then focus in more detail on the issue of hate crimes. This work consists of two parts, general and special. The first part is focused on general criminological knowledge about violent crime and is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, basic information about violent crime and …
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