Hate crime refers to crimes motivated by intolerance toward certain groups in society. These types of crimes have very high potential of fragmenting the society, and destabilizing it by creating a cycle of violence and retaliation between groups. Hate crimes are rooted in the prejudices or biases that people have about people from other groups and for this reason hate crimes are also called bias crimes.
Hate crime is based on hate or other negative feelings like resentment and jealousy between different social grouping criteria such as such as ethnic, religious, national regional colour, language and caste. It could even be based on gender or profession.
The nature of offences committed could be very serious ones like killing, arson and looting. But it also include offences like intimidation and threat. Hate crimes are committed not with the intent of hurting the particular victim, but to hurt and intimidated the entire group to which the victim belongs.
The website referred below gives a detailed paper on hate crime titled Hate Crime Laws: A Practical Guide, Published by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
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