Hate Crime Research Papers

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“A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” Around the world, a new game is becoming deadly and starting to target victims because of hate. The knockout game involves assaulting people without warning, and it is claiming lives. The victims of the brutal game are chosen at random. Defenseless and unsuspecting people are attacked by groups of teens that have one goal in mind: to knock the victim out with one punch. A 27-year-old boy named Connor wanted to get the medias attention for his knockout. He wanted to know if he hit a black person if it would be nationally televised. He was charged with a hate crime and also a 250,000-dollar fine if convicted and 10 years in prison. He punched a 79-year-old black man in the jaw so hard that he is faced with 2 jaw fractures and spent several days in the hospital. I think this game is very disturbing. The game is not even a game really, it’s literally assaulting a person. Understand teens who’d like to engage, assault is a major charge in every city within American borders. Not only is this…show more content…
Without the laws, I think there would be more hate crimes taking place. There are always people who do not follow laws, and do not care if they are charged or arrested because they are trying to state their opinion and try to make the media get their story. Hate crimes will always be a problem, but we can keep some of them off the roads and hopefully scare some into not committing these

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