Crimes of Hate or Just Crime? / Beth Shuster.
by Shuster, Beth; Corcoran, Katherine; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 39Human Relations. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001; Knight-Ridder 2001ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Racial profiling | Criminal statistics | Hate crime investigation | Hate crimes | Middle Easterners -- United States | Race discrimination | Terrorism -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 050 Summary: CRIMES OF HATE OR JUST CRIME? -- "Despite near-daily reports of attacks against people who appear Middle Eastern, the difficulty in determining what motivated the criminals and the nation's imprecise system for tracking hate crimes make it impossible to know how dramatically such violence has surged." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reveals the difficulty in determining whether or not criminal acts are motivated by racial bias, a fact drawn to attention due to violence against Arabs and Middle Easterners after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.Summary: HAUNTED BY PLANE ATTACKS, SOME STRUGGLE WITH SUSPICION -- "Across the country, citizens who would not normally categorize people by race are doing something police departments have been denounced for in the past: racial profiling." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article examines how the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have once again focused America's attention on race and ethnicity; this time, however, the targets have been Arabs and Middle Easterners.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Crimes of Hate or Just Crime?, Oct. 11, 2001; pp. n.p..
Originally Published: Haunted by Plane Attacks, Some Struggle with Suspicion, Sept. 24, 2001; pp. 1A+.
CRIMES OF HATE OR JUST CRIME? -- "Despite near-daily reports of attacks against people who appear Middle Eastern, the difficulty in determining what motivated the criminals and the nation's imprecise system for tracking hate crimes make it impossible to know how dramatically such violence has surged." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reveals the difficulty in determining whether or not criminal acts are motivated by racial bias, a fact drawn to attention due to violence against Arabs and Middle Easterners after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
HAUNTED BY PLANE ATTACKS, SOME STRUGGLE WITH SUSPICION -- "Across the country, citizens who would not normally categorize people by race are doing something police departments have been denounced for in the past: racial profiling." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article examines how the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have once again focused America's attention on race and ethnicity; this time, however, the targets have been Arabs and Middle Easterners.
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