Hate crime

A hate crime is a crime (not necessarily a violent crime, though sometimes so) that is motivated by prejudice against a social group.

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The U.S. Congress defined in 1992 a hate crime as a crime in which "the defendant's conduct was motivated by hatred, bias, or prejudice, based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity of another individual or group of individuals" (HR 4797). In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act added disabilities to the above list.

Crime: A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of the criminal law. For example, most traffic violations or breaches of contract are not crimes in a legal sense....

Violent crime: A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens violent force upon the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder, as well as crimes in which violence is the means to an end, such as robbery. Violent crimes inclu...

Prejudice: For "with(out) prejudice" in law, see Prejudice (law)....

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