Hate crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws intended to protect against hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws...

crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the...

Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on...

Hate speech in the United States cannot be directly regulated by the government due to the fundamental right to freedom of speech protected by the Constitution...

Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time. Most available data underestimate crime before...

In the United States, a federal crime or federal offense is an act that is made illegal by U.S. federal legislation enacted by both the United States...

to the federal definition of a hate crime. However, only some states and territories include gender identity in their hate crime laws. Throughout the United...

legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America. The people who are the targets of such violence are believed...

In the United States, the relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. Crime...

terrorism in the United States East St. Louis riots (1917) Hate crime laws in the United States History of homeland security in the United States Human rights...

The United States does not have hate speech laws, since the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that laws criminalizing hate speech violate the guarantee...

approached the Chicago Police Department and reported a hate crime that he had staged earlier that morning. He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American...

The law may identify protected groups based on certain characteristics. In some countries, including the United States, what is usually labelled "hate speech"...

2022, 17% of hate crimes in the United Kingdom are conducted against Jews, which account for 0.5% of the British population. 39% of hate crimes are conducted...

individuals (LGBTQI), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America. Gay men are victimized by homophobic violence...

Disability hate crime is a form of hate crime involving the use of violence against people with disabilities. This is not only violence in a physical...

there has been an upsurge in the number of antisemitic hate crimes in recent years. Some historians have stated that the recent focus on diversity, equity...

lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States. Teena was born on December 12, 1972, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to JoAnn Brandon. His father died in a car accident...

Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement; it became law in 1994. It is the largest crime bill in the history of the United States and consisted of 356...

part of the wider culture war between liberals and conservatives in the U.S Hate crime laws (also known as bias crimes laws) protect against crimes motivated...

Texas. In 2001, Byrd's lynching-by-dragging led the state of Texas to pass a hate crimes law, which later led the United States Congress to pass the Matthew...

serious). In the United States, where the felony–misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable...

Crime in the United Kingdom describes acts of violent crime and non-violent crime that take place within the United Kingdom. Courts and police systems...

eventually became known as the "murder capital" of the United States. The crime rate started to fall in the mid-1990s as the crack cocaine epidemic gave...

Silly Hate Crime 2000" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 50th episode of the series...

trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt. His death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States. Eugene A. Tucker, attorney and...

The hate speech laws in Poland derive from its Constitution and from its Penal Code. The laws discourage any conduct that foments racial, national, or...

Law & Order: Organized Crime is an American crime drama television series that premiered on April 1, 2021, on NBC. The seventh series in the Law & Order...

In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial...

Crime in Canada is generally considered low overall. Under the Canadian constitution, the power to establish criminal law & rules of investigation is...