Encyclopedia entry
Hate Crime (Issues in Measurement)
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp 1-5
22 Jan 2014
Abstract
Hate crime is defined as an illegal act against a person, institution, or property that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against the victim's perceived group membership. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the federal government and states have collected data on hate crime occurrences. However, for a number of reasons, including existing differences in group coverage between federal and state laws and across states, the true rate of hate crime is reported differently across sources and overall it remains unknown.
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- Title
- Hate Crime (Issues in Measurement)
- Creators
- Bitna KimAshley Dickinson
- Contributors
- Jay S Albanese (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp 1-5
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Encyclopedia entry
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105025297442
- Other Identifier
- 991021862374504721