hate crimes
hate crimesCrimes committed out of racial, religious, or sexual prejudice, which target minority groups, and which often violate anti-discrimination laws. Such crimes are usually crimes of violence motivated against (for example) women, Jews, Blacks, or gays. During the 1980s legislation was developed around the idea of hate crimes, raising the question of whether the motivation behind an act should make it more or less punishable. A useful review of issues is Paul Iganski (ed.), The Hate Debate (2002).
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