... Sadly hate crimes like this one have been increasing over time in America since 9/11. The rise of hate crimes towards Muslims is mainly caused by Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the irrational fear, discrimination, or hatred of Islam and its followers and can be rooted so deep into people's minds, many may not know they have it. Islamophobia does not just appear from nowhere, It is caused by people unwilling to...
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...the FBI Hate Crime Statistics Report, there were a total of 8152 hate crimes reported around the country. 4368 were racial bias motivated; 1483 were religious bias motivated; sexual orientation bias accounted for 1330; ethnicity/national origin bias was the cause of 927 (11.4%); disability bias was connected with 36; and the remaining 8 incidents were the result of multiple biases. Recent years show more and more Hate crimes being the cause of violence in the nation. There are a lot of bias people in this world that is the main reason why Hate Crimes are the number one cause of violence in America because of racial, sexual discrimination, and religious crimes. One of the biggest riots we’ve had in 2015 was the effect of...
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...Hate Groups in America Abstract This essay will be exploring hate groups that exist in America, and some of the victims that have been a target from these groups. Hate groups commit violent crimes against people because of their demographics or the organizations that they represent. A hate crime is a violent criminal act that is not justified; it is committed to inflict pain and suffering. While hate groups exist in America, the crimes that are committed are not acceptable, and could be solved with communication. “We hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not know them because we hate them”-Charles Caleb Colston Hate Groups in America Hate Groups have been increasing in America, and they are surged by a feeling of hate toward another group because of their race, national religion, sexual orientation, status and anything that one will find to hate another. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances” http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment. Americans have freedoms to form groups that they want to and if it violates the law it will be looked into, and although the crimes that these groups commit against others is wrong, the hate groups that have formed are not illegal, and are growing in numbers...
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...Amanda Rizzo Professor Strong English 102 GA 10/18/16 Hate Crimes Throughout America there are several problems that take place due to hate crimes. Hate crime is a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence. Hate crimes take place all over America for several reasons such as, your religion, your race and your ethnicity. There were several hate crimes that took place throughout the United States, but the few that really caught my eye were, James Byrd who was an african american male who was murdered. Also Laramie, where a gay guy was brutally beaten to his death. Hate crime does not only just impact the family of the victim but also affects the people around them. James Byrd was a victim of hate crime....
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...Criminology: Hate Crimes A hate crime is “a crime motivated in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin or disability” and is “committed against persons, property, or society” (FBI, 2007). Certainly, hate crimes are daily happenings in American society, but this hate is not something that is inherent within individuals, this hatred is disseminated by a network of people that it has selected as a common enemy. In Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Jack Levin and Jack McDevit assert that “[c]rimes motivated by bigotry usually arise not out of the pathological rantings and ravings of a few deviant types in organized hate groups, but out of the very mainstream of society.” Essentially, this means that society itself, especially the media creates these rifts between groups because it decides which groups are to be labeled as either in-groups or out-groups. Due to these distinctions, things like fear, hatred and resentment are built inside the consciousness distinct groups of people, producing a rising sentiment of “us” versus “them.” Hate crimes have always been a part and parcel of U.S. history, and the number of organized hate groups has increased in recent years, “as a result of the ease with which [group] messages are spread through Internet websites” (Conklin 59). What attracts people to these ideas of prejudice is what Gordon Allport calls “functional significance” in his The Nature...
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...Americans, they are often misperceived as a monolithic group. Thus, even though an act of anti-Asian sentiment might be perpetrated with a particular ethnic group in mind (e.g., Indian, Filipino or Korean), a failure to make distinctions between Asian Pacific American ethnic groups causes members of all groups to become potential victims of hate crimes. Hate incidents are expressions of hostility based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Hate incidents are not illegal. They may take the form of name-calling or using racial slurs, hate speech, the distribution of racist leaflets or other disrespectful behavior. Hate crimes are defined by federal or state statutes. A hate crime occurs when a person commits an act such as assault, battery, criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to property or mob action because of the victim's real or perceived race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Hate crime laws vary from state to state. Hate crimes are another type of abuse, and one which can occur anywhere and anytime. In the United States today, the most commonly publicized hate crimes are those perpetrated on particular ethnic groups (such as persons of Middle Eastern descent, or...
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...In just the United State of America, anti-Muslim groups have grown 197% since 2015. In 2000, there were only five hate groups and in 2016 there were 101 hate groups towards Muslims (Anti-Muslim, n.d.). There was a huge spike after the massive terrorist attack in 2001 with hate crimes on Muslims. The previous year, there were only 28 reported incidents of hate crimes, but in 2001 the number jumped to 481. The number of reported incidents did eventually go down; however, the numbers never went under 100 again (Middlebrook, 2017). One of the largest anti-Muslim groups, the ACT for America has more than 750,000 members and 1,000 chapters throughout America. The leader of ACT for America, Brigitte Gabriel stated: If a Muslim who has—who is—a practicing...
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...States of America was founded on; the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the United States Constitution are three well known documents that ensure the rights of the people of the United States. The Pledge of Allegiance states that we are “One Nation” and the 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...
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...supporting details per main point. A hate crime is the victimization of an individual’s race, religion, national origin, ethnic identification. • Write all supporting details and subdetails in complete sentences. In both crime and law hate crime is also known as bias-motivated crime. It’s usually violent, prejudice motivated crime that occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group. • Include both in-text citations in the outline and a references page following the outline. Many of your supporting details and subdetails will need in-text citations. I have got most of my information from Wikipedia. • Outline only the body of your paper (not your introduction or conclusion). Hate crime generally refers to criminal acts that are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more types of groups or their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or even offensive graffiti or letters. • Avoid bias and present a balanced case for your thesis—this will strengthen your writing. Hate crimes in America is on the rise. People are getting mistreated and there is nothing being done about it. With the hate on the rise people are either killing each other or they are killing themselves because they cannot deal with the pain anymore. Your thesis statement: Outline: I. Introduction Hate Crime is a major issue II. First main...
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...Muslims in America before and after 9/11 Imagine yourself in a place where Muslims were called terrorists after the 9/11 attack. Before 9/11 Muslims were free to live in America. Muslims didn’t meet people outside of their faith groups. After 9/11 attack Muslims were treated really badly and they were forced to meet people outside of their faith groups. The recent study from Pew Researcher center, 10 years later, 55 percent of Muslim Americans say that it has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the United States. However, 66 percent of Muslim Americans say that life for Muslims is better here than in most Muslim nations (Jones). Before 9/11 attack Muslims in America were appreciated, but after the 9/11 attack which affected everybody, Muslims were looked down upon by the society. “Sept. 11 shook all of us. It was a horrible action that we will remember for as long as we live. We remember the date, we remember...
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...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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...Hate Crimes in American Society in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Sample Student Research Paper Project of Sociology Table of Contents I. Thesis Statement…………………………………………….………….....Page 4 II. Introduction and Summary………………………………….………….....Page 4 III. Literature Review………………………………………………………....Page 6 IV. Methods………………………………………………………….......….. Page 16 V. Socio-Historical Analysis………………………………………………. .Page 18 A. 20th Century 1. Lynching 2. Ku Klux Klan 3. Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots 4. Matthew Shepard B. 21st Century 1. Post 9/11 2. Jena Six VI. Cause and Effect Analysis…………………………………………… ....Page 24 A. Causes 1. Prejudice a. Stereotypes b. Scapegoats c. Presence of Hate in American Culture d. Need for Status and Power 2. Reasons for Crime a. Sending a Message b. Thrill Seeking c. Defensive B. Effects 1. Psychological Trauma 2. Undo Social Progress 3. Community Unrest 4. Threat of Retaliation VII. Descriptive Analysis……………………………………………….........Page 30 A. Description of Victims 1. Bias against a Particular Race 2. Bias against a Particular Religion 3. Bias against a Particular Sexual Orientation 4. Bias against a Particular Ethnicity/National Origin 5. Bias against a Disability B. Description of Offenses and Offenders This must be your new section? VIII. Comparative Analysis…………………………………………………. Page 36 A. United States Justice Department Definition of Hate Crime B. International Justice...
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...Crash Kendra Koelsch SOC1101: Human Behavior Instructor Robyn Milliken-Setser August 17th, 2015 The movie Crash (2005) is intended to be a nature of life in America in regards to 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...
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...ideas that foresaw the greatness of America.” His ideas supported valiant causes in his time period, advocating for political and social freedoms of equality, democracy, and individual rights, especially within America. But the keyword here is that these illusions of great American success only rang true within his time period. While Thomas Paine’s arguments in “Rights of Man” served to promote and defend the political and social importance of equality, democracy, and individuals’ rights he believed could be found in America, his claims of the greatness of America in these regards are widely untrue...
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...On July 26, 2015, the United States of America passed a nationwide legislature that allowed for same-sex marriage. This makes the United States of America the twenty-second country to allow nationwide same-sex marriage. This is a huge accomplishment that was celebrated by LGBT groups across the U.S. Many groups have been created in the U.S. in support of the LGBT community. The Human Rights Campaign, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Trevor Project are just a few of the many organizations that have formed to support and advocate for the LGBT community. When a minority group wants to get their issues recognized by society and the general public, they usually have to catch the attention of those in the majority. The HRC has been working to advocate for LGBT Americans and educate the public about LGBT issues ever since...
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