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Bias related violence

Literature Review: Hate Crimes and Youth

In the United States, hate crimes are complex and often underreported crimes (Levin et al., 2007; Kena and Thompson, 2021; Pezella, Fetzer, and Keller, 2019). For a crime to be considered a hate crime there must be a motivation (in part or in whole) to commit the crime based on a bias against a particular social group of people. The bias may be based on race...

Hate Crime

Date Published
August 1995
Publication Type
Statistics, Legislation/Policy Description, Issue Overview
Agencies
OJJDP