Hate Crime Policy

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Hate Crime Policy


In the society that we, not only as human beings but also Americans, live in today have that fear of being attacked or acted against for no apparent reason. On any given day, any given person can suffer from one of these acts of violence what is considered a hate crime. However, in what I am going to discuss today is about how women suffer from this policy, in particular, as victims of these acts.
First, a hate crime law seeks to treat a crime, if it can be demonstrated that the offense was a ‘hate crime’, then it would be treated differently then under ordinary criminal law. Attempts have been made to reach a definition of a hate crime, including that it is a crime, most commonly violence, motivated by prejudice, bias or hatred towards a particular group of which the victim is presumed to be a member. As such, hate crime is generally directed towards a class of people; the individual victim is rarely significant to the offender and is most commonly a stranger to him or her. Hate crimes are said that they occur against a particular group, so in this case women could be targeted because of jealously, anger, and simply their vulnerability. With this, comes out cries from the media and the public about new legislation for hate crime policy.
Moreover, hate crimes against women occur not only in America but all over the world. Examples of hate crimes against women, in other parts of the world are as follows. In rural villages in Pakistan women are routinely murdered for such ‘crimes’ as walking outside the house, communicating with a man to whom they do not ‘belong’, wanting to leave the house to visit their mothers or marrying a man not chosen by their father. Considering these acts above, we must incorporate that gender was a valid reason why this crime was committed. Theoretical analysis has been done to figure out if these crimes against women are random or planned encounters, which in tu...