Punishing Hate Crimes: My Opinion
Date Submitted: 07/28/2004 15:50:58
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 2 pages (534 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 2 pages (534 words)
Assignment: Write your opinion about hate crimes legislation. This is not supposed to be a research paper but only your thoughts on the topic.
------ Should Hate Crimes be punished harder than non bias-based assaults? Hate crimes vary from other assaults, and therefore should be punished harder then a regular assault. There are a variety of ways to perform hate crimes; they are, for example, acts of violence, harassment, threats, and property damage. However, to …
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…just because of who we are.
Yes, in some way a crime is a crime and all crimes comparable to each other should be treated the same. However this is not possible. Take for example murders - there are first and second degree murders, pre-meditated or not. The law has looked at the reason for killings for many years. I believe HATE should be another reason to look at when considering punishment of the offenders.
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