Hatecrimes (1)
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Hate Crimes
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The rate of hate crimes has significantly increased, making hate crime to be a major public policy issue in the country. The occurrence of hate crimes has resulted in adverse effects, particularly for targeted groups of people. This has not only put people's life and safety at risk but also affected their mental and emotional health. Hate crimes are usually defined as offenses that involve bias against one another based on various factors, including gender, race, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation (Zhang et al., 2021). This type of crime is an
extreme form of prejudice and occurs due to social change, political changes, or other kind of public debate. Due to the adverse effects of hate crimes, the use of body cameras has been implemented as one of the most effective ways of dealing with crimes. Body cameras have significantly helped in dealing with hate crimes because they are able to record incidents at a touch of a button. This initiative was designed in a way to supplement the use of existing CCTV and security measures in different parts of the country. The use of body cameras is intended to offer reassurance to people who experience hate crimes by providing deterrent and assisting law enforcement officers in collecting evidence to identify the offenders (Kim, 2019). This is also likely to increase law enforcement officers' opportunities to arrest those responsible, take appropriate actions to present them to courts, and prevent them from committing the crime again.
There are various federal and state policies and laws that have been enforced by the Department of Justice to deal with the issue of hate crimes. These crime laws mainly cover hate crimes committed based on color, race, religion, nationality, disability, gender identity, gender, and sexual orientation. Some of the federal hate crime laws include conspiracy against rights, violent interference with federally protected rights, and criminal interference with the right to fair
housing (Jendryke & McClure, 2019). On the other hand, most states have hate crime statutes
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that vary across jurisdictions. These hate crime statutes are based on the motivations of bias, penalty improvements, and collection of data.
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Jendryke, M., & McClure, S. C. (2019). Mapping crime – Hate crimes and hate groups in the USA: A spatial analysis with gridded data. Applied Geography, 111, 102072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102072
Kim, T. (2019). The Power of Observation: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Body Worn Cameras on Police Use of Force and Productivity. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3474634
Zhang, Y., Zhang, L., & Benton, F. (2021). Hate Crimes against Asian Americans. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-020-09602-9