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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED337549 AUTHOR: Hatcher, Bunny Nightwalker
TITLE: Hate Crime in the 1980's: A Decade of Bigotry. A
Report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 24 p.
ABSTRACT: A report on hate-crimes in the 1980s in Los
Angeles County (California) found that these acts had
increased in number. Hate crimes are defined as criminal
acts directed at an individual, institution, or business
expressly because of race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual
orientation. Over the period 1980 to 1989, religiously
motivated hate crimes climbed from 26 to 125, with most
attacks aimed at Jews. Racially motivated hate crimes
numbered four in 1981 and 167 in 1989, with Blacks
generally the victims of these acts. Data on sexual
orientation hate crimes were collected beginning in 1987
and show 61 incidents in 1988 and 86 incidents in 1989,
with most aimed at gay men rather than lesbians. Although
the increase in reported hate crimes may be due to the
increased prominence of the Los Angeles County Commission
on Human Relations (LACCHR) and its work collecting data on
the problem, it seems clear that there has been a real
increase in hate crimes. Statistical data are presented in
13 tables. Recommendations approved by the Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors in the 1980s, a historical overview,
a detailed criteria for the definition of hate crime, and
a chronology of major hate crime activity 1980-1989 are
included. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Blacks-; Jews-; Lesbianism-; Longitudinal
Studies; Minority-Groups; Sociocultural-Patterns;
Statistical-Data; Trend-Analysis; Urban-Problems; Violence-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Crime-; *Ethnic-Discrimination;
*Homosexuality-; *Racial-Discrimination; *Religious
Discrimination
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