Ideological Bias Reflected in American Crime Statistics

As Niels Christie said, crime is a property of the state (2004). Therefore, it can be defined by the same ideal system that affects the country. Therefore, criminal statistics refers to human behavior that society considers to be abnormal, and therefore can be regarded as having no purpose (Dorling and Simpson, 1999). Therefore, the statistics they provide may not be accurate. To some extent it can be inferred that they are social reflexes, people who provide data, and most importantly people who accumulate data.

Hatred crime is a traditional crime such as homicide, arson, vandalism, and there is further bias. In order to gather statistical data, the FBI may refer to a hate crime as a person or property perpetrator who is motivated in whole or in part by prejudice against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, race, gender, Criminal offenses against crime crime against war crimes ". It is not a crime per se - the FBI is careful to protect the freedom of speech and other civil liberties. Since so-called "reporters" print classical nonsense, "possible" has some concepts worthy of being permanent - and what do you guess? In the hands of the hero who smokes - We continue to instigate those flames until you are crucified by another person of color or faith

Since 1992, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have collected statistics on hate crimes reported to law enforcement agencies based on the Hate Crime Statistics Act. FBI's Criminal Justice Information Service announces these statistics annually as part of its unified crime reporting program. According to these reports, there are over 113,000 hat offenses since 1991, 55% of which are racial prejudices, 17% religious prejudice, 14% sexual orientation prejudice, 14% racist And 1% prejudice The 2007 survey found that the number of violent offenses against homeless people is increasing. The crime rate recorded in 2005 was 30% higher than in 1999. 75% of all offenders are under 25 years of age. According to the survey and survey, it is known that the crime rate of homeless people is much higher than those of non-homeless people, but most cases have never been reported to the authorities.

Crime of hatred can be violated by people without prejudice or other criminal history. Although it is widely believed that crimes of hatred are not always done by extremely correct organization of members and ideological movements. For these reasons, hate crime is a very complex phenomenon, it is difficult to identify and respond. Behavior including the type of prejudice and prejudice of the above type but not constituting a crime is expressed as "a motivated event". This term represents behavior caused by prejudice, from simply unpleasant acts to acts constituting offenders who have not been proven. Therefore, they share the second element of a hate crime, but do not share the first element