The four classes according to McDevitt and colleagues (2002) are thrill seeking, defensive, retaliatory, and mission. “The thrill seeking offenders are motivated by a desire for excitement. These offenders seek out for a “good time” they target areas outside of their neighborhood such as gay bars, minority neighborhoods, etc. and attack them. In like manner, the defensive offenders attack based on their own prejudice point of view, because they are necessary to protect their neighborhood from outsiders. For example, a black family moves into a predominantly white neighborhood and the defensive neighborhood reports this to the police and informs the police more blacks will follow and the neighborhood will lose its value. Also, the retaliatory
