Preventing Hate Crimes And Profiling The Hate Crime Offenders : Halt The Hate

INTRODUCTION
Crimes are classified in a few different ways.
There are the types of crimes which we often
see like theft, robbery, assault, and murder.
Then there are hate crimes, which are appended
to other charges and carry greater penalties.
Such criminal acts motivated by prejudice, also
known as hate crimes or bias crimes are illegal
act against a person, any institution, or property
that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the
offender’s bias against the victim’s group or his
membership of a particular group to his prejudice.
It is typically one commenced by prejudice
by race, religion, sexual orientation, or other
grounds. They are the violent manifestations of
intolerance against a community.
What qualifies a criminal act to be a hate
crime specifically swivels upon the factor of
motivation: whether the crime motivated by a
bias is against the victim’s race, religion, sexual
orientation, or other protected aspects of their
identity. Hate crime laws are usually designed
in connotation with the actual offense the person
is charged with, such as an assault or a murder,
putting greater severity on the crime due to its
hateful motivations. For example, it is not illegal
to randomly spew racial epithets but if a person
intentionally goes far as to punch someone
because of his racial biasness, the crime becomes
much more serious in the eyes of the law.