Hate Crimes: Born Prejudice? Hate based on race, religion and sexual orientation exist within any cultural rich societies. ... Does hate crime imply on any case when a person is convicted for inflicting damage on someone "different"? It is often tricky to set a benchmark for measuring sufficiency of hate as a cause to label it in front of crime. ... It is ultimately in a person's perception, which concludes what is and what is not a hate crime....

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Federal law defines a hate crime as whenever a victim is attacked on the basis of his or her race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender; hate offenses are directed against members of a particular group simply because of their membership in that group (Levin 4). Hate crimes today are becoming out of control. ... What happened thereafter undoubtedly has to be one of the most gruesome and horrifying crimes this country has seen since the day's slavery was legal. ... According to sociologists and psychologists, hate crimes tend to be excessively brutal, and they are often sense...

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The average prison sentence for a violent crime is about one year longer for African-Americans than for Caucasians ("Racial Inequalities in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. ... A study has shown that 58,000 criminal cases have found disparities in the sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crime ("Black Americans Given" 1). ... One set of judges was against racial bias and the other groups of judges were more likely to make their sentences based on a racial stereoty...

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When a crime is committed the enforcers of the law gather evidence to decrease their pool of suspects, one of the most controversial techniques that officer's use is racial profiling. ... Racial profiling is a prejudiced view on someone based on their skin colour or ethnicity to judge whether or not they have committed a crime even before any evidence has been gathered because they "fit the profile". ... It is therefore quite upsetting to note that in today's society discrimination and racism still exist and play a dominate roll in assuming that people are guilty of committ...

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Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many attractive features, it must be modified to be truly beneficial. ... In any policy discussion, formulation of a plausible and effective solution clearly must be based upon the nature of the problem. ... It also found that of all federal death row inmates, 67 percent are Black.11 Despite the fact that these statistics are startling and important, they are insufficient to justify race-based jury nullifi...

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Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

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All too often when a child commits a crime or does something that disagrees with the standards of today's society, we are quick to blame it on the fact that the child was raised in a single parent home. ... Next, the film portrays racism on another level; a black man is falsely arrested for the crime of raping a white woman. ... In today's judicial system, it is very difficult to secure a conviction based on one person's word against another. ... At the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, the man is found guilty based solely on the verbal accounts provided by the victim. ...

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Racial profiling roughly covers the grounds of an individual being searched, pulled over, arrested, or questioned by authorities based on race, sex, or even more so, ethnicity. It is a fact that African Americans are six to eight times more likely to be not just arrested, but convicted of a violent crime than a Caucasian. ... While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences than others, and police and any other authorities do keep this in mind while on duty, not because they are racists, ...

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Many people are killed not having committed a single crime because of their skin color. ... There isn't a scientific explanation for these crimes other than they must be crazy. Why else would you kill based on race? ... If everyone stopped judging people by their race, there would be no racism therefore less deaths and hate crimes. ...

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During this time blacks were unjustly accused of awful crimes against whites. Rape, kidnapping and murder are crimes that were charged against blacks. ... Such justification by southern leaders fostered the misconception that blacks were lynched predominantly for sexual assault, but few lynching victims were actually convicted or even indicted for such crimes." When a black person was accused of these crimes, a lynch mob would gather outside of the jail where they were being kept till sentencing. ... There was no justification in the assassination of so many African-Americans, especially...

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The sentencing of death is claimed to have double standards based on these characteristics. ... The average age at the time the crime is committed is 30. ... I did notice through out my studies that the white males that are on death row or have been executed have committed, in my opinion, ay more Cruel and unusually crimes than the black men. ... They are seen as nothing because people believe if you don"t have money, you don"t really have a role in society so they are seen to have more reason to commit these crimes for things like money, possessions, revenge. ... People who are today call...

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The reasoning behind the statement is that within this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards of twenty five years for the same non committed crime. ... Sentencing Commission (2010) reports that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10% longer than white offenders for the same crimes. ... A poor, uneducated person from a high crime area maybe more easily manipulated and intimidated by the police than an educated white person with ques...

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Authored by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based research and advocacy group, the study showed that in 2000 there were 791,000 men in jail or prison and 603,000 enrolled in colleges or universities. ... Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected children, or handled money carelessly. ... Police always found an innocent black man to blame for the crime since, as Douglass pointed out, all Negroes ...

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Late 19th - Century American Literature Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson as a critique of 19th Century hierarchies based on racial segregation Mark Twain: Mark Twain was born on November 30th of the year 1835 in Florida, Missouri. ... Thesis: "Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain is to be read as a critique of 19th century hierarchies based on racial division."" ... This is a stereotypical description of small towns of the South in those days: "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it."" (6) Th...

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However, society often tends to make superficial judgments about others based on their exterior appearance, cultural background, and their physical attributes or disabilities. ... The police hearing the man saying such a thing like that with two little dead girls in his arms, them white and blonde, him black and as big as a house, automatically assumed that he was the killer indeed and did not bother to investigate the crime. ... When the truth was finally revealed, that John Coffey in fact was innocent of not having committed the crime, authorities looked the other way, because to them j...

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Police officers stop, question and even search black drivers who have committed no crime, based on the excuse that a traffic offense has occurred. ... During the Civil Rights Era, racial profiling was a major issue, thousands of black Americans were unnecessarily stopped and arrested based on their skin color alone. ... Racial profiling is based on the premise that minorities commit most drug offenses. ... The unfortunate result is the innocent people are often persecuted based on their skin color alone. ... If there is a crime committed within the community, this "bred" distrust makes it ...

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In today's world there are a lot of killings, robberies, rapes, and other crimes committed everyday. ... Canada has just as much guns as we do, but their crime rate is really low. ... The two boys who created this tragic crime experienced racism. ... The American society judges people based on what they see on the outside. The government spends more money on war, than trying to prevent crimes and funding the schools for children. ...

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When a black man is accused of a crime he didn't commit, he is still found guilty because of his skin color. ... As long as our society is ridden with race-based problems, we will need race-based remedies. ...

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Lastly and most importantly the racism in societal is the labels we put on people based on their skin color. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ...

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Aside from biased views, there are also many flaws that exist in our justice system, such as the appearance of racial inequality in court, problems of the public defender system such that it is based mostly on the socioeconomic concept, and the involvement of police abuse and misconduct. ... Minorities, specifically blacks, are charged with more serious crimes, have less opportunity to plea-bargain, are convicted more frequently, and receive harsher sentences when compared to whites in similar situations. ... A study by the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic B...

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So for a society who prides herself on the basis of freedom, and who has based its moral code off of Judeo-Christian law which claims that all men are created equal; how could we possibly commit such a cockamamie violation of humanitarian rights like slavery? ... The races of this nation have been stratified into an unequal caste system; According to Webster dictionary the proper definition of a caste system is a division of society based upon differences of wealth, rank or occupation. ...

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Imprisonment has thus been seen as the ways to deter crime, protect the good of the public and for rehabilitation. ... The crime rate has gone down and many people have been advocating against juvenile confinement and trying a child as an adult. Also the emergence of community-based rehabilitation programs has emerged nationwide to prevent youth from being incarcerated and to help former child inmates to entering the jail system again. ...

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s philosophy of civil disobedience being the leading cause of crime. ... In the 1960s, crime rates rose for about 10 years; reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates doubled. However, the reason for crime can be explained by the "baby boom generation.... Barry Goldwater, in his presidential campaign of 1964, exploited the riots and fears of black crime, laying the foundation for the "get tough on crime movement.... " Welfare and crime were the major themes of Reagan's campaign rhetoric. ...

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Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Bob Ewell is left handed and given his violent nature, it is clear that he commits the crime. ... Tom Robinson faced the death penalty for a crime that Bob Ewell commits. ... Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable ...

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Race is a cultural category into which people are placed based upon apparent biological characteristics. ... Racism produces a fear-based society in which no one feels safe. ... White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices that kill people due to lack of heath care, lack of police protection and unequal legal prosecution. ... Multiculturalism has to base on inclusion. ...

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