A hate crime, which also goes by the name of “bias-motivated crime”, is when a perpetrator chooses a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social group. Memberships in certain groups can include: sex, ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. Hate crime is generally when a person commits a crime against one or multiple people for one or many of the memberships listed in the previous sentence. Crimes against people with these certain types of memberships can be: physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, insults, or offensive graffiti or hate mail. Hate crimes can have extremely important and wide-ranging psychological results, not only
