Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 on April 23 of that same year in response to growing national concern over crimes motivated by bias. The Act requires the Attorney General to "collect data about crimes that show evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity."
Graph Bias-motivated Offenses/Percent Distribution 2002
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(Perry, 2001) Bowling wishes to define the term "hate crime" in a way to give it "life" and meaning so many elements will be taken into account when attempting to describe hate crime.
The Anti-Defamation League addresses these topics in their hate training seminars:
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