The Assault

“hate crime” did not enter the nation’s vocabulary until the late 1960’s, when emerging hate groups like the Skinheads as well as the Ku Klux Klan conducted many bias-related criminal acts. Many incidents may involve damage to property, physical assault, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults. Hate crimes are violent and prejudice-motivated crimes that target individuals simply because of who they are and often cause victims to continue to feel threatened long after an attack. Hate crimes…

Turner’s wicked rape case. In 2015 Brock Turner sexually assaulted “ Emily Doe” behind a dumpster prior to participating in underage drinking at a frat party. After he was caught in the act, he was initially charged with three felony charges of sexual assault. His judge knew jail would have a “severe impact” on Turner’s future swimming career, so he gave him a six month sentence for his three charges. Turner ended up only serving a mere three months out of his already lenient six month sentence.…

What is a hate or bias crime? It is usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual's national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and or disability (addiction). Addiction by definition is a condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing or activity. Although I could not find any specific documentation of Hate and Bias crimes on people with addictions, I am focusing on the hate crimes that are related to…

training. This year’s topics include proper completion and utilization of the Lethal Assessment (LAP) Form how to properly document victim’s injuries and take necessary photographs. The instructor from the Domestic Violence Unit also reviews the assault laws and charges that are applicable to Domestic Violence related runs. The process for filing an Emergency Protective Orders is also discussed. Through grants members of the Domestic Violence Unit attend conferences and seminars across the…

potentially, 1,260,000 untested rape kits out there. It's mindboggling on how, what people call the rape kit backlog, has gotten so large. For those that do not know, a rape kit, is the container of evidence that is collected from a victim of a sexual assault, that is used to help find the perpetrator of the crime. The backlog is the kits that…

preference, or any other defining characteristic. Anytime two different groups of people come in contact with each other, there is the possibility of tension or conflict developing, which often leads to violence. Whether the crime in question is assault, theft, verbal abuse or even murder, the motivation behind it is based on the hatred for a group that is perceived as being different in some way. ("History of Hate Crime - Crime Museum") According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics there are…

One unfortunate outcome of women being victimized less is that poor women and women of color are disproportionally victimized by domestic violence. According to Farmer and Tiefenthaler, “Data from the NCVS indicate that being young, black, poor, and divorced or separated all increase to the likelihood of a woman being a victim of intimate partner abuse. Specifically, women ages 20-24 are the most likely to be victimized while black women are 35% more likely to be abused than white women and 2.5…

planning his revenge on those who bring him down. He does not act on those aggressive thoughts, not yet. Flash forward fifteen years, that same boy who was shove into those lockers so many years ago now has been convicted of many accounts of aggravated assault. He has done this so others feel the way he felt, helpless. People like him, people who are or were bullied, are more likely to commit criminal acts. Vincent Paul Solares, a 23 year-old rookie police officer at the Manila Police…

31, 2000, Ray was involved in a scuffle outside of a nightclub as the Super Bowl ended in Atlanta. Two men were stabbed to death, and Ray Lewis was seen as the murderer. Lewis, along with two other friends, were charged with murder and aggravated assault (Rhoden). Not only was his reputation hurt, but even his own sense of pride. After pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, the murder charges attached to him were dropped and he was given a year of probation. After all of Lewis’ legal problems…

typology, “For example, if a victim reports to the police that he was attacked because he is Hispanic, but upon investigation the police discover that the offender had himself been an assault victim recently and was trying to retaliate for that attack, many police officers are less likely to categorize such an assault as a hate crime.” (Mcdevitt, Levin & Bennett, 304) In cases of bias crime, there is no gains for the aggressor. There is not attempt to take money or personal items and there is…