I. Intro-What is a hate crime
. A hate crime is when a person intentionally selects a victim because of the race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. A person who commits a hate crime can come from any background and be any race. The term hate crime is meant to differentiate criminal behavior that is caused by prejudice from behavior that is motivated by greed jealously, anger, politics and like. Hate groups differ from one another in terms of membership, ideology and activities but do share one thing in common; they direct violence towards and against groups of people they do not understand. Most people committing hate crimes feel they are just doing Gods work of letting the victim know what they are or are doing is wrong according to that person. Hate crimes have been happening since the Nazis and Jews, blacks and whites, straight and GLBT and still happens to this day and for those reasons and more.
II. Types of hate crimes
A. Color/race
B. Religion
C. Nationality
D. Gender
E. Sexual preference
Incidents can include verbal attacks/abuse, harassment, random attacks, damage to property, physical abuse and attacks, bullying and/or graffiti.
III. Causes
Most hate crimes are caused by ignorance, confusion and fear of the unknown and different. Generating a violate reaction under the right circumstances can turn a person to commit a hate crime. Reasons for each person committing a hate crime maybe different but they all most likely share the same the feels and most don't even know that's why they are committing the crime.
IV. Hate crime laws
Hate crime laws vary for the most part from state to state, country to country and all around the world. Hate crimes usually fall into one of four categories:
1. laws defining specific bias hate crime acts as distinct crimes
2. Criminal penalty enhancement laws
3. Laws creating distinct civil causes of action for the hate crimes
4. Laws requiring