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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for bias motivated crimes
3 results foundAuthor: Biegel, Stuart Title: Safe at School: Addressing the School Environment and LGBT Safety through Policy and Legislation Summary: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students face a unique set of safety concerns each day. Over 85% report being harassed because of their sexual or gender identity, and over 20% report being physically attacked. Far too often teachers and administrators do nothing in response. In part because of this, the suicide rate for LGBT students continues to be 3-4 times higher than that of their straight counterparts, and in some parts of the country LGBT runaways may comprise up to 40% of the entire teen homeless population. Advances in law and policy have helped lead to much more fulfilling and productive lives for many LGBT persons, but the problems facing LGBT youth in America‘s public schools are still substantial. Gay and gender-non-conforming students continue to be confronted with challenges that can become overwhelming. Court records and academic research reveal a highly troubling pattern of mistreatment, negative consequences, and a dramatic failure on the part of many educational institutions to adequately address LGBT-related issues and concerns. This brief describes those issues, presents concrete policy recommendations, and then offers model statutory code language to implement many of those recommendations. Details: Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado, 2010. 51p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 20, 2012 at: http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/safe-at-school Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/safe-at-school Shelf Number: 125702 Keywords: Bias Motivated CrimesDiscriminationGender IdentityHate Crimes (U.S.)School CrimeSchool Safety |
Author: Roberts, Colin Title: Understanding Who Commits Hate Crime and Why They Do It Summary: This study was commissioned by the Welsh Government to explore and assess what is known about the perpetrators of hate crimes and their motivations. By providing a critical analysis of the existing research evidence-base in this area, the study contributes to a more comprehensive and informed understanding of this kind of offending in order to improve policy and practice responses to it. Based upon a detailed review of the literature in terms of what is known about hate crime offenders and offending nationally and internationally, it is intended that the findings should frame and steer subsequent more detailed empirical analysis of hate crime data. The available data shows that of the 43,748 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2011/12: • 35,816 (82%) were race hate crimes; • 1,621 (4%) were religious/belief hate crimes; • 4,252 (10%) were sexual orientation hate crimes; • 1,744 (4%) were disability hate crimes; and • 315 (1%) were transgender hate crimes. In that year, there were 1,809 hate crimes recorded in Wales with a broadly similar pattern of offences: • 1,368 (76%) were race hate crimes; • 54 (3%) were religious/belief hate crimes; • 244 (13%) were sexual orientation hate crimes; • 122 (8%) were disability hate crimes; and • 21 (1%) were transgender hate crimes. Reflecting the harm associated with crimes of this type over the past two decades or so, there has been a rapid growth in the amount of policy and research attention paid to it as an issue. A significant proportion of this work has focused upon victims and victim perspectives. Far less research has been conducted into those responsible for causing harm to the victims. Details: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales: Welsh Government Social Research, 2013. 73p. Source: Internet Resource: Social Research, No. 38/2013: Accessed July 24, 2013 at: http://wales.gov.uk/docs/caecd/research/130711-understanding-who-commits-hate-crime-and-why-they-do-it-en.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://wales.gov.uk/docs/caecd/research/130711-understanding-who-commits-hate-crime-and-why-they-do-it-en.pdf Shelf Number: 129498 Keywords: Bias Motivated CrimesDiscriminationHate Crimes (Wales, U.K.) |
Author: Muller, Karsten Title: Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime Summary: This paper investigates the link between social media and hate crime using hand-collected data from Facebook. We study the case of Germany, where the recently emerged right-wing party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has developed a major social media presence. Using a Bartik-type empirical strategy, we show that right-wing anti-refugee sentiment on Facebook predicts violent crimes against refugees in otherwise similar municipalities with higher social media usage. To establish causality, we further exploit exogenous variation in major internet and Facebook outages, which fully undo the correlation between social media and hate crime. We further find that the effect decreases with distracting news events; increases with user network interactions; and does not hold for posts unrelated to refugees. Our results suggest that social media can act as a propagation mechanism between online hate speech and real-life incidents. Details: Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, 2018. 82p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 4, 2018 at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/crschwarz/fanning-flames-hate.pdf Year: 2018 Country: Germany URL: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/crschwarz/fanning-flames-hate.pdf Shelf Number: 149690 Keywords: Bias Motivated CrimesHate CrimesMinority GroupsSocial Media |