CRM/LAW C127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Criminal Justice Information Services, Matthew Shepard, The New York Times
22 Mar 2019
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Media causes stereotypes when it comes to hate crimes. Media must cover some type of bias motivated violence against one targeted group. Pick a target population; at least 2 (of 2 pieces one needs to be contemporary and one needs to be prior from 2016 election) Primary source of info about national hate crime trends: 4/23/1990: in response to a growing concern about hate crimes, congress passed the hate crime statistics acts which required data collection. About crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, secual orentation, or ethnicity . 1994: violent crime control and law enforcement act added bias crime. 1996: church arson prevention act made hate crime statistics a. 2009: matthew shepard and james byrd, jr hate crimes prevention act permanent . based on disability added gender and gender identity biases, as well as hate crime committed by or directed against juveniles. 2013: director of fbi approved the criminal justice information services.
