Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes A hate crime is described as the victimization of an individual based upon his/her race, national origin, ethnic identification, gender or sexual orientation. These crimes vary from physical assault, verbal harassment, robbery, rape, to an attack on homes, places of worship and murder. These type of crimes embody social intolerance towards certain members of the community, who are discriminated against due to their preferential orientation, actions, and influences. Hate crimes instill panic into members of the community who engage in alternative activities than the majority of society. Victims of hate crimes fear the perpetrators of these crimes, who look to punish individuals who wander from politically correct convention and social ethics. Victims of hate acts, in an effort to protect their rights of being, cry out for laws to protect them from these crimes of intolerance. Their case claims that these hate crimes emerge from cynicism of a particular group, and their crimes are not limited to a particular injustice to an individual person, but to the group as a whole. Victims of hate crimes feel that their rights are being compromised and they demand stricter legislation and punishment of such crimes.