Hate crimes have becomes a topic of serious discussion in recent decades due to the increased focus on racial tensions around the world. Coming up with special categories to define and examine this level of crime is important in order to assist in the cessation of the behavior and bring awareness to the plight of the victims (Karmen, 2015). The following categories all represent levels of criminology and a certain level of hate that is perpetrated upon a class of victims.
Category 1 Political Crime could be perhaps the most important of all victim related crimes because of the massive ramifications and huge influence politics have on so many people. What makes this category so important to the 21st Century is the amount of resources these criminal politicians have on their side. The media, controlled by corporate interests and thus politicians who influence these companies, dictates much of what …show more content…
Victims of all creeds, race, or sex face a wide variety of emotional pain due to their victimization (Karmen, 2015). This is no different for men who are abused, physically and mentally, by the women in their lives. One of the main issues with this kind of category/crime is that many men are reluctant to report such occurrences of abuse due to feelings of being emasculated. Men do not want to admit to being weak, especially when it is a woman abusing them, and therefore these crimes are severely underreported. This leads to further false public perception that this type of crime is not worthy of study or examination. This is of course ridiculous and therefore women abusing men crime should be looked at for what it is: wrong. Males are more likely to commit suicide than females, suffer from depression at a much higher rate, and this type of crime could be a contributing factor to these
Category 1 Political Crime could be perhaps the most important of all victim related crimes because of the massive ramifications and huge influence politics have on so many people. What makes this category so important to the 21st Century is the amount of resources these criminal politicians have on their side. The media, controlled by corporate interests and thus politicians who influence these companies, dictates much of what …show more content…
Victims of all creeds, race, or sex face a wide variety of emotional pain due to their victimization (Karmen, 2015). This is no different for men who are abused, physically and mentally, by the women in their lives. One of the main issues with this kind of category/crime is that many men are reluctant to report such occurrences of abuse due to feelings of being emasculated. Men do not want to admit to being weak, especially when it is a woman abusing them, and therefore these crimes are severely underreported. This leads to further false public perception that this type of crime is not worthy of study or examination. This is of course ridiculous and therefore women abusing men crime should be looked at for what it is: wrong. Males are more likely to commit suicide than females, suffer from depression at a much higher rate, and this type of crime could be a contributing factor to these