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From October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2019, U.S. attorneys investigated 1,864 suspects in federal hate crime matters. Additionally, DOJ collects national hate crime data in accordance with the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, 28 U.S.C. § 534, through two data collections: The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Hate crimes (also known as “bias crimes”) are recognized as a distinct category of crimes that have a broader effect that most other kinds of crimes because the victims are not only the crime’s immediate target but also others like them. The FBI defines hate crimes as “criminal offense[s] against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by a person’s bias against a race ...
23 Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness, Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movements to Law Enforcement (New York, NY: Russel Sage Foundation, 2001). NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crime (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2022). FBI, “Defining a Hate Crime.”
In a violent crime, a victim is harmed by or threatened with violence. Violent crimes include rape and sexual assault, robbery, assault and murder. NIJ supports research that strives to understand and reduce the occurrence and impact of violent crimes. This includes describing the scope of these crimes, such as how and when they occur and their consequences. NIJ also supports evaluations of ...
Individuals who commit hate crimes do so out of a variety of bias-based motivations, and the demographic and other characteristics of those individuals can vary widely depending on the type of hate crime committed. A recent study of unprecedented scope on what drives people who perpetrate hate crimes found that, in light of those diverse motivations and traits, the tools needed to monitor and ...
Jeff Gruenewald, Ph.D., is a professor and director of the Terrorism Research Center at the University of Arkansas and studies domestic violent extremism and hate crime. Michael Jensen, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, where he leads the ...
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice to prevent and respond to hate crimes. Though applications may cover a range of topics, NIJ is particularly interested in funding: (1) evaluations of federal-, state-, or locally funded efforts to combat hate crimes ; (2) research that informs strategies to prevent hate ...
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders . U.S. Hate Crime Investigation Rates and Characteristics: Findings from the National Hate Crime Investigations Study (NHCIS) Final Report: Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) A Multi-Level, Multi-Method Investigation of the Psycho Social Life Histories of Mass Shooters
Awad pled guilty to assault as a hate crime. He received 5 years’ probation and was required to attend an anger-management course. Bahrampour, T., “Metro Briefing—New York: Brooklyn: Hate-Crimes Prosecution,” New York Times [ note online], June 27, 2001 (accessed January 31, 2007).. A Queens, New York jury convicted Minucci of second-degree assault as a hate crime. He was sentenced to ...
Drawing on case files and interviews with police and prosecutors in one jurisdiction, three institutional impediments to hate-crime prosecution are identified: evidentiary inflation, by which law enforcement uses a higher burden of proof than what is required by statute; loose coupling between police departments and prosecutors' offices; and ...