hate crimes
Hate crimes are crimes against individuals and groups motivated by prejudice. Most crimes against individuals are against a person or property that is motivated by the offender's bias against race, religion, or sexuality just to name a few. These crimes are committed by all kinds of people in society, rather it is an individual, groups or organized groups, since most of these crimes are motivated by bigotry thinking. The most common is people blame another group for social economical hardships. "The Hispanics were especially discriminated against during the recurring periods of strong anti immigrant sentiment, both new immigrants and long-time U.S. citizens of Mexican decent were blamed for social economic problems and harassed or deported in masses"(Towsend, 2000). Racial hatred is the largest reason hate crimes exist, mostly targeted to African Americans. Such groups as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis have formed because of their hatred for blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, and homosexuals. These groups blame all immigrants for taking jobs away from the majority. These groups will violently attack or even kill to get their so-called justice. They feel that for all the years whites persecuted blacks that
Religious discrimination has been evident ever since explores landed on our country. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries European explorers began a trend of violent crimes against people based on race and religion (Lira, 2000). European explorers initiated massacres, enslavement raids, and abuse of aboriginal people, because they wanted to bring advancements of Christian empire in the New World (Lira, 2000). Religious crimes are usually acts of vandalism like burning of churches. Since it is a group gathering the assailants are going to go after the place were they group meets, the group is too big to go after each individual. Although personal attacks are not that uncommon. "In 1996, according to the FBI, the overwhelming majority of attacks are directed against Jews. Amazingly 80% of anti-religious hate groups are anti-Jewish, 2% anti-Catholic, 2% anti-Islamic, 5% anti-Protestant, and 11% anti-other" (Towsend, 2000). How can hate crimes be prevented? A question asked that has multiple solutions, and all solutions need to be exercised. Openness, everyone benefits from being open-minded and by respect you'll appreciate each other's differences. Not only appreciate each other's differences but also understand each other. Teach children at a young age before stereotypes and racist myths enter their minds. The government can make, as many laws as they want to punish those for committing such crimes, but that doesn't prevent hate crimes from occurring. So until all prejudice are eliminated from society hate crimes will continue. H
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