Arguments Against Hate Crimes

Hate crimes are vindictive, vigorous acts perpetrated against individuals or groups based on resentment of values, religion, race, and life style preferences. Thus, it is a violent form of criminality motivated by prejudice or intolerance towards an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. It has exacerbated in the past few years. Nevertheless, a person’s sexual orientation can contribute to a person being a target of brutality based upon lifestyle and choices. There are different types of savagery employed against a LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) individual or groups. Furthermore, it can have a huge impact upon the individual’ lifestyle. Moreover, this paper, will explore the causes and types of violence perpetrated against LGBT community, its impact, and the means of preventing its occurrences. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) groups are the most hated and heavily targeted groups due to their sexual preferences (Kirchner 2015). Lesbians are women that have a preference to date women, but there are also different types of lesbians. There are fems, which are women who dress like the traditional typical female. Additionally, studs …show more content…
Negative attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people put this group of youths at increased risk for experiencing violence, compared to other students (Coker 2010). Nevertheless, violence aimed at them includes such behaviors as relentless bullying, callous bantering, unremitting harassment, horrific physical assault, and incessant suicide-related behaviors. According to data from Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) conducted during 2001‒2009 in seven states and six large urban school districts, the percentage of LGB students (across the sites) threatened or injured with a weapon on school property in the prior year ranged from 12% to