Immigrations to the United States in the last decade has made the criminal system to add new laws. In most of the cases victims are afraid to reported crimes. These create a issue because if crimes are not report, is more hard to stop future crimes or make justice to the victims. The dependent variable was victims of hate crime, and the independent variable victims cultural. The researchers hypothesized that people that are illegal in this country usually don’t report any crime because they are afraid of deportation and the police is going to ask for …show more content…
Mcdevitt, J., Levin, J., & Bennett, S. (2002). Hate crimes offenders: an expanded typology. Journal of Social Issues. 58(2). 303-317.
These research focus on offenders and why their commit hate crimes. The research hypothesis is that offenders want to send a message when they commit a these violent crime as a way of fear and inferiority and let the victims know that there are not welcome in specific areas. The dependent variable was offenders, and the independent variable was Boston Police Department cases of hate crime. Most of the time crimes are committed because an attack committed for the thrill or excitement of the act. The research use quantitative and date from the Community Disorders Unit
(CDU) of the Boston Police Department provided these case file. The concluded that youth offenders were bored and looking for some fun or go to different neighborhood to search for victims.
3. Nolan, J., Akiyama, Y., & Berhanu, S. (2002). The Hate Crime Statistics Act 1990. American Behavioral Scientist. 46(1) …show more content…
The Researchers hypothesized that negative thinking of law punish is one of the result of hate crimes. Punishment for offenders are not hard enough to stop bias crimes and protect victims. The dependent variable of these law of hate crime, and the independent variable was the psychological result of bias crime. The research design was qualitative and examined hate crime laws from the 1990s. One of the result is that psychologies found out that victim of hate crime were afraid to said that was a hate crime and lied on the police report. Also in this article found out that victims believes that because their are minorities they don’t have the same rights as