Hate Crimes Research Paper

Hate crimes are a frequent factor in today's societies. These crimes are defined as any violence of intolerance or bigotry that is intended to intimidate or to hurt someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious belief, or sexual orientation. It can also damage racial relations in societies. When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency, where in order to protect their own; they find a scapegoat to blame their problems on. Hate crimes motivated by bigotry are often not solely directed towards the individual victim, but can also pose a threat to an open society, by creating a dispute between social relations that turn into even more hate crimes. For example, after the terrorist attack …show more content…
Enacted in 1990 the hate crime statistics act required the justice department to acquire date on hate crimes, due to the drastic change of the amount of hate crimes in the United States throughout the years. For example, in 2010 a total of 6,628 , in 2011 a total of 5,796 were reported. Hate crimes can fall into many different categories. Raced based hate crimes were normally the most reported each year, followed by religion based crimes, then sexual orientation. However, according to the F.B.I sexual orientation has generally risen as the motivation. Gay men are typically the main subjects for sexual orientation motivated hate crimes, 26 in 1000,000 gay men reported being victims, compared 10 in 1000,000 for lesbian women. Out of 60,2016 reported hate crimes, 47 percent were racially motivated, 21 percent motivated by sexual orientation, 12 percent motivated by ethnicity. Among the known perpetrators 66 percent were white, 20 percent were white. A portion of the known perpetrators commit hate crimes as a reaction against a perceived threat, or in order to preserve their “territory”. However, some commit hate crimes out of resentment over the growing economic or political power of a particular racial, or ethnic group. A large percentage of these hate crimes are committed by hate groups, there are 939 active hate groups in the United States, an increase of 56 percent since 2010, in 2012 a total of 5,786 hate crimes were committed by hate groups resulting in

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