Hate Crimes Against Lgbt

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Hate Crimes against LGBT Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are frequently targeted by state and individuals because their sexual orientation. The violence can be motivated by political, religious, social basis or homophobia. The violence can take the form of lynching, intimidation, mobbing, assault, cyber stalking, bullying and rape. In most democracy countries, legal provisions permitting or decriminalizing homosexuality have been in place since the Second World War. Under these legal issues, violence is qualified as a form of hate crime. Hate crimes are bias-motivated acts where one targets another because of their real or perceived membership of a social group. The basis of this social group-sexual identity-is still a divisive issues even in the west-area of the world. In today’s age, the act of homosexuality has been legalized in almost all countries; violence against LGBT has been regarded to as a hate crime. It is claimed to have been connected with either religious or some political ideologies, which tend to be against, strongly condemn homosexuality, and associate it with weakness, morally ill, and feminine. However, many countries from where the Islamic religion dominates have proven to be quote dangerous for the LGTB people. This is due to their way of intolerance against the group of individuals associated with the rejected acts, which influences the physical violence as well as discriminatory legislation form of directive. Researches show that, a majority of the criminal acts incidents may tend to involve physical damage, assault or destruction of property, verbal form of abuse, insults, or even offensive sort of writings. Research say that, the majority of hate crimes have incorporated a combination of two or more of the above-mentioned forms of crime. Some argue that verbal abuse could be more harming than physical; there have

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