CRM/LAW C127 Lecture 1: CRM/LAW C127 Lecture 1

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C127
• Professor: Golob

Document Summary

A lot of unrelated behaviors and conditions may fall under the rubric of hate crimes, so we must establish a criterion- or set of criteria- by which something is deemed or not deemed a hate crime. Defining hate crime threat to safety and/or associated psychological damage. Violence: harmful behaviors that lead, or are likely to lead, to physical injury or. Crime: any behavior that can, if detected, invoke a reaction from the state or. Necessary and sufficient elements: sovereign; anything illegal. Illegality: to call anything a crime it must be illegal; the law defines what equals a hate crime. Bias-motivation: primary distinction between hate crime and parallel crime is the intent standard which distinguishes hate crime as having a specific prejudicial or bias intent associated with it.