id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_emgio63ws5cpllqyujuagwjpyu James B. Jacobs Hate Crimes: A Critical Perspective 1997 .pdf text/html 4525 343 59 substantive hate crime laws or sentence enhancements for crimes motivated by officially disfavored prejudices. Lobbyists for special hate crime laws believe that prejudice is worse than all other criminal motivations Hate crime laws condemn discrimination by criminals in the same way that Title VII of the Federal Equal Employment All hate crime laws include prejudice based on race, color, religion, and national origin (Wang 1995, app. hate crime statute; it covers religion, national origin, gender and sexual For criminal conduct to constitute a hate crime it must be motivated which predicate crimes, when motivated by prejudice, qualify as hate hate crime if motivated by race, religion, national origin, and so forth limit hate crimes to certain predicate offenses when motivated by a disfavored prejudice. harassment, when motivated by prejudice, are classified as hate crimes A second genre of hate crime law is comprised of statutes that provide sentence enhancements for prejudice-motivated crimes (Wang ./cache/work_emgio63ws5cpllqyujuagwjpyu.pdf ./txt/work_emgio63ws5cpllqyujuagwjpyu.txt