Essays on Hate Crime

On Saturday May 27, 2017, three men were atrociously stabbed after they tried to intervene and help two women as they were being verbally abused by a man yelling racial and religious slurs in Portland, Oregon. The 35 year old criminal, Jeremy Joseph Christian, is...

Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange’s wife and daughter, over a land dispute, paraded naked, sexually abused and murdered – Khairlanji Massacre, 2006. Mohammad Akhlaq and his son, accused of stealing and slaughtering of a cow calf, atrociously lynched with stones, trashed till dead – Dadri Lynching, 2015. ‘Pehlu...

The emergence of Donald Jr. Trump as the republican party’s presidential candidate in the 2016 American presidential election brought forth the re-birth of a new vine of the supporters as a result of its subtle racial undertones which unconsciously accommodated white supremacy. The supremacists were...

This dissertation report is a description and analysis that I have done during the summer. The dissertation responses to the analysis of the crime, in particular, the “Violence crime” which involves the possession of weapons in London. The dissertation deployed a various form of analysis,...

The Mathew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed by Obama into law in 2008. The name of the act is based on the case surrounding the inhuman killing of Mathew Shepard in the year 1998. This crime was viewed as the...

Should crimes receive an additional penalty if hate-based? Hate crimes are classified as crimes due to sexual, racial, religious, or other prejudices; the crimes usually end in violence. Many states have laws that give the criminal larger punishments when the crime is considered a hate crime....