...of hate crimes based on national origin. In Germany it was the Holocaust and the hate towards Jewish people, here in America we’ve had a history of hate against African American people now it seems that hate towards other races such as Latinos and Middle Eastern races are becoming more apparent. It's also obvious that, while Americans are always in a hurry to close our most unpleasant chapters, unfortunately, anti-Semitism is alive and well in a lot of parts of our society, whether we like it or not. The fight for women’s rights in America started before the 1920s but big changes weren’t made until the 1960’s and 1970’s. The women's movement emerged as a political force later than the black civil rights movement, but today it is equally well entrenched. Sexism is widely seen as racism's counterpart. It’s only natural to include gender prejudice under the hate crime umbrella, especially in light of the extent to which women as a group are victimized by men. Crimes against women would seem to be the most obvious candidate for recognition as hate crime. However, the intent of the person committing the crime would need to be known before it could be determined if a man commits a sexual crime against a woman. In 1994, women reported approximately 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults, almost 500,000 robberies and 3.8 million assaults. The perpetrator was male in the vast majority of these offenses it is undetermined if any of these were considered hate crimes. The Violent Crime Control...
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...28, 2010 Hate Crimes The word hate is described as having a strong distaste for something or someone. It is a very harsh word that is loosely thrown around in conversation without thinking of the negativity that word can bring. To some individuals who feel they have to act out their hate end up committing hate crimes or a criminal act against the very thing they hate. According to the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) from the FBI databases in 2008 there were 7,783 hate crimes reported. Of the reported crimes religious, racism, and sexualism are a few that cause so many communities to be divided against each other. Religious discrimination is defined as treating a person or a group differently because of what they do or don’t believe. Freedom of religion is an individual’s constitutional right. We should be free to express our religion without feeling we will be prosecuted for doing so. Our country is so culturally diverse and every individual culture has embraced a specific religious practice that speaks to them and their family. Our different religious practices range from Jewish, Muslim, Buddhism and Christianity beliefs. Now there are some that believe that their religious practices are superior to others and that can cause conflicts between cultures. But really people are afraid of what they don’t understand and to those particular people they seem to commit harsh crimes against individuals who are embracing their human right. One of the biggest crimes we have seen...
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...Hate Crimes The topic of my choice to do my research paper on is Hate Crimes. I chose this topic because I thought it would be interesting to explore the minds of an individual who desire to cause harm to another individual or a group of individuals just because he/she opposes to individuality. According to the media and articles that have been published over the last couple of years, there has been a large number of hate crimes spreading throughout the world. Many groups that are being targeted by this malicious crime are those that are of homosexuality, race, and religious. Doing my research I read an article on how the minds of a person who commits hate crimes are develop. A person who commits hate crimes are usually an individual who has been abused as a child and violence is the only way they have learned to solve their problems. They are usually a lonelier, have difficulties with being around a group of people. These individuals tend to be small minded, not accepting to others having different opinions and beliefs on life. Hate crimes are premeditated and prejudice crimes that are carried out by individuals who wish to cause harm to individuals for being of different. The highest number of hate crimes is due to homosexuality. According to Chris Saldnan, “sexual orientations are up six-percent nationwide”. Since homosexuality has been accepted with open hearts and minds around the world, there are still some others who feel they need to seek action to stop it. Some people...
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...Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal.” The term “Hate Crime” defined by Public Law #103-322A, a 1994 federal law, defines a hate crime as: “a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person.” Although this is the federal definition, each state has their own legal hate crime statues, which states what constitutes and is punishable as a hate crime in that state. Some states do not recognize hate crimes at all, yet, as it clearly states in the countries founding documents the people of this country are “one nation” and “all men are created equal.” The number of hate crimes being committed is growing in numbers. What is considered a “hate crime” today is no longer restricted to the issue of black and white, but the national standard for these crimes remains unclear. Some individuals feel that hate crime legislation or Hate Crime Laws are not only unconstitutional, but redundant and unnecessary. The writer of “Hate Crime Laws Are Unnecessary” argues that “hate crime laws, whether at the state or federal level, are not necessary” ("Hate Crime Laws Are Unnecessary"). The writer further argues that passing such laws will not prevent crimes motivated by...
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...Sasha immediately leaped up and began to scream. Two other passengers on the bus helped extinguish the fire, and afterwards, an ambulance rushed Sasha to the San Francisco burn unit. He was treated and operated over the next 4 weeks for his second and third degree burns. Richard Thomas, the 16-year-old boy who lit Sasha’s skirt on fire was arrested the following day. Due to the severity and nature of the crime, Thomas was charged as an adult, denying him of his protections, which included anonymity, which is generally allowed for juveniles. He was charged with two felonies, both with a hate crime clause that would increase the time he would have to serve if he were to be convicted. Thomas, at this point, was facing the possibility of a life sentence. Thomas was interviewed by the police, so they could understand why he did what he did that day on the bus. His only reasoning for almost every question, was that he was homophobic and did not like gay people. After months of courtroom dates, Thomas was eventually sentenced to 7 years in prison. The nature of this crime, in my opinion is horrific. A young man was brutally injured due to his life choices and preferences, and was attacked by another...
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...Jovan A. Henriquez Page 1 Professor Allen Phelps English 1.3 28 March 2013 Latino street gangs located everywhere, killing innocent African Americans. These men and woman feed off of fear from the hate of other racial groups that feel they are trespassing on their territories. Drugs play a big part to the Latino economy, these gang members have killed multiple police officers. Gang members are being arrested every single day in America for the distribution of Cocaine, Marijuana, Crystal Meth, and Heroin. Somebody needs to get these brutal criminals off of the streets, these gang members are causing death to the innocent people of America. We’re just sitting around watching the death rate add up. The murder rate against African Americans is 8,000 to 9,000 deaths a year. Does anybody see this as a problem? The crime rate, along with murder rate, is outrageous. As a country, we should see this as a huge issue. Seems to be that our priorities are set on something other than what’s important. Such as, new gun legislation. Latino’s are not only drug trafficking in California. This is happening all over the US, where men and women are being punished for innocent acts. This happening in each and every single one of the States. Page 2 They’re are radical gangs all across the board. What’re they responsible for? They’re poisoning the people of America, with extreme drugs...
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...it is right, good, or even acceptable. I wonder how Adolf Hitler would have felt if Jews had decided to eradicate Austrian/ Germans? What would he have done, would he have died or survived? I googled Adolf Hitler and there are several websites saying his father was ½ Jewish. There is even a video on UTube about Hitler being part Jewish. With a name like Adolf, some of his facial characteristics, and hair as dark as his why, would he want to annihilate a mass of people who are similar to him? I am not sure if Hitler truly was part Jewish, but if he was, did he know? How would he react if he was alive, the allegations were true and he were finding out? What would drive someone to destroy one group of people and to create a “pure race”? How can anyone describe or make a pure race? I think the only way to describe a pure race is by being disease free. I can understand how one person can hate another or simply not like them based on an action or belief. I cannot grasp the idea of wanting to murder an...
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...Research Study #1: Victim experiences in hate crimes based on sexual orientation By: Herek, Gregory M., Cogan, Jeanine C., Gillis, J. Roy2 Universities Affiliated: University of California, Davis., University of Toronto Abstract: Using interview data from a convenience sample of 450 lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults, the varieties of victim experiences in hate crimes based on sexual orientation are described. Most crimes were perpetrated in public settings by one or more strangers, but victimization also occurred in other locales, and perpetrators included neighbors, coworkers, and relatives. In deciding whether a crime was based on their sexual orientation, victims tended to rely primarily on contextual cues and perpetrators’ explicit statements. Victims’ concerns about police bias and public disclosure of their sexual orientation were important factors in deciding whether to report antigay crimes, as were beliefs about the crime’s severity and the likelihood that perpetrators would be punished. Reflection: The method used in this research study is the interview method. They collected a sample size of 450 willing volunteers (224 men: 204 gay, 20 bisexual and 226 women: 202 lesbian, 24 bisexual). They all were asked to describe their experiences with hate crimes and there was a split between people who knew for sure they were attacked by biased views and those who knew their attacker did not have any biased views against them. Many volunteers felt they were most likely...
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...David Sewell July 19, 2015 The Confederate Flag On June 17, a man named Dylann Roof was part of a crime scene. He shot and killed nine black church members in Charleston, SC, and injured 3 more. This young man was a white supremacist who took action against what he thought were the enemy. He was a known white supremacist among his peers. He would go on rants about the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the Baltimore protests that occurred earlier this year. His rants stated that “blacks were taking over the world” and that he told planned to kill people. He had a lot of pictures with the confederate flag in them, and he stated his support of racial segregation in the United States. Roof also had a website that was registered to him. On this website he had pictures of himself posing in front of a confederate battle flag holding a handgun, along with “a nearly 2,500-word manifesto in which the author criticized blacks as being inferior while lamenting the cowardice of white flight” (Robles para 3). Dylann Roof used the confederate flag as a symbol for white supremacy. He used the image in multiple places, including his website and on his car's license plates. This usage of the confederate flag shows how it could easily be used in hate crimes, and it is known to be a popular image among white supremacist groups. Valley Forge flag Co. is a business that produces and sells flags. This company has a huge presence in the United States with 4 locations and 300 employees. “It's American...
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...filled hater of GOD’S lack of a chosen race. While at the same time attempting to beat down a little pregnant mother with his eyes filled with hate and in his hand a baton and a filled can of maze. Then you’ve never lived in Bama or South Florida where they still haze. Well, have you ever tried to be nice all day long? And just as you were singing your happy, happy song, someone out of the blue crossed over on you. And, as your horn you blew, you knew that they were the cause of the breakage of your minute long truce. With peace or consequence, they both were there as Lennon Lacy hung on the tree with a tightened noose and hatred filled Confederate Flags riddling the trailers here and there. Making reality of peace and tranquility so very rare. Have you ever felt like justice just didn’t care? And people say it’s good to be alive? But, when will America stand tall and say we’ve heard enough of all that jive? Then too it could be worse just as you see that black hearse. Why do people hate and hide incest, child molestations and alarming tweets? And why did Lennon Lacy have other than his sneakers on his lineman’s’ feet? Folks like Duck Dynasty say foolishness like it’s “race-mixing” to blame. But, like Reverend John F. MacArthur confessed, ”ignorance has no premium “and stupidity has no shame. So, what ‘s the proximate cause of all the hate? Why is the Dirty South trying to carry a flag that in the day saw a really bad fate? Why did Bladenboro, North Carolina police call Lennon...
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...equality. It is set in Los Angeles, it is about social and cultural stereotypes, race, and the conflict that often ensues as a result. The movie is presented in the conflict perspective which according to Richard T. Schaefer (2009) "assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power including housing, money, access to services and political representation". Crash uses tension to the story line of each character forcing them into positions of conflict as well as dependence, and emphasizes the status of equality in America. In order to progress to a more equal society it is essential like Americans presented in the movie Crash, especially those most often seen in modern society such as stereotyping, hate crimes, etc… Schaefer defines stereotypes as "unreliable generalizations about all members of a group shows a car crash involving two police detectives and an Asian woman. You can see from the beginning of the movie that the stereotyping begins immediately when the Asian woman tells the police officer that is writing the traffic report that "Mexicans don’t know how to drive. She brakes too fast!" (Haggis, 2005) A verbal struggle ensues between the Latina police detective, who is driving and the Asian woman. RIA mocks the lady about her incorrect pronunciation of the word brake. The Asian woman demonstrates that in her mind the stereotypical Latina is a Mexican who cannot drive. In another example of stereotyping, the District Attorney's White...
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...that was about to die and was perplexed about how he should die but still had the will to survive. He goes through many difficulties in his bid to survive. Many very fascinating ideas strike him and he manages to pull things that he would not have dreamed. For instance, when he puts a mark on the wall to make sure he is not going round and round when he could touch the walls. He had the presence of mind to know that he will go round and round till infinity if the pit was circular and he hence left a mark on the wall. He similarly decided to jump off the pit than being squashed to death. That as a choice he would have never had to make in any other circumstance. In this story, Poe shows an irony- an irony where a person becomes that what he hate the most. The captors of the narrator were the Spanish and in the time of the Spanish inquisition the church was against science and hence no scientific activities were tolerated. The main reason of the Spanish inquisition was to make sure science does not get over the church and the church maintains its respect and authority. Through the passage of the story however, the way they treat the narrator is very much similar to a scientific experiment. Throughout the time frame that he is captured; there has always been a way for him to get out. He is firstly given food. Even though...
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...Batman is a caped crime fighter who saves the city of any danger, but he is much more than that. He is a teacher, but he is not certified, he is a detective, but was not trained, he is a father, but does not have any children of his own, Batman is a role model despite his age and his appearance. I think the students of Barrow High School should read Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns because the graphic novel incorporates subjects taught in the Barrow High School American History class, the graphic novel exposes a side of Batman not many people know of, there is a hidden theme in the novel explaining to people that they should follow their passion despite their age, it tells people that you do not need superpowers to make a difference, and the comic tells readers to reserve judgment based off of rumors. The final page of the graphic novel is probably the most emotional scene yet Batman faked his death, but he is still in pursuit to save Gotham City, “ …Here, in the endless cave, far past the burnt remains of a crime fighter whose time has passed… It begins here—an army—to bring sense to a world plagued by worse than thieves and murderers… This will be a good life… Good enough” (Miller,...
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...Christmas Eve in 1975 (A&E Television Networks, 2014). Fortunately for her she survived the attack. Shortly after, Berkowitz committed his first crime, he had an objective to kill women for vengeance on his mother. After the first attack, David decided to use a .44 caliber gun to kill his victims instead of a knife because the knife was too personal. This continued for over a year, then he started dropping hints. He wrote letters to the police saying why he committed the crimes he did. The police discovered it was David after he got a parking ticket. The police arrested David Berkowitz on August 10, 1977. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years to life times six. David was adopted, by middle class parents, Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. His biological mother died giving birth to him. He spent his childhood blaming himself for killing his real mom. In the Berkowitz household, David grew up having a distinct bond with his mother, Pearl, however, barely had much in common with his father, Nathan. At just 10-years old, David began to see a psychiatrist, but he was very quiet. In 1967, David’s adoptive mother died from breast cancer, leaving him with his father who he didn’t talk to much. The death of his mother left him with guilt. Before she left for a dinner that night he screamed to her, “I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!” Only David didn’t know those would be his last words to her. Even those David already showed difficulties with his...
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...Death haunts the footsteps of the living, a reminder of the deadline that steadily draws nearer, unmoved by purpose, hope, and previous engagements. The greatest irony of life is that no one comes out alive. If there is a flaw in Meursault’s shroud of the impartiality to the customs of life, his likeness in mindset to that of the universe, it is his mortality. When confronted with the death of a close relative, who, by all society’s accounts, he should mourn, he, in opposition to all of society, does not lament the demise. “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.” (4) In fact, he continues on in his routine as he has ever done before, moving mindlessly through the motions of life, nonetheless staying immobile in the midst of life’s turmoil, even when encountering its deepest treasure troves: hate, jealousy, and anger; humor, joy, and love. Yet when he is confronted with his own demise, it is then that he fully evaluates himself, not just as an outcast or an observer, but also as one who will live and die and be expunged from the turbulence of time without so much as a thumbprint on the world. As people say, ‘life will go on.’ However, though Camus uses Meursault as a symbol of absurdity, no more worthy, condemnable, or predictable...
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