The legal definition of hate crime (i.e., the offender attacks the victim because of the victim's actual or perceived race, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or national origin) tends to be viewed as a causality description for the offense. This paper maintains that the "...
Approximately 30 states and the federal government have some form of hate-crime statute. Many localities have also enacted their own hate-crime ordinances. The precise definition of hate crime varies from state to state. Some states define a hate crime as any crime based on a belief regarding...
freedom of speech and expressionliberty of expressionriotscommunal riotslaw and orderHate Speech has been designed as new type of hate crime in those countries where speeches are protected as part of speech and expression liberty but at the same time creating threat to the law and order.This ...
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To what extent should citizens, as a matter of law and policy, be "free" to abuse, ridicule, threaten, defame, mock and insult the religious beliefs, icons, prophets, practices and esteemed figures of believers, even where such attacks contribute to ongoing debate of topics of "public ...
Footnote 15 The definition of this term refers to the aspect of ‘false statement’ (the image disseminated), which in the case of fake porn is not false, thus excluding a lawsuit against entities publishing the incriminated photographs (Batza 2017). Victims of fake porn face successive ...
Footnote 12 This definition has the effect of excluding a whole range of images that might be considered ‘intimate’ but which are not ‘sexual’ and/or are of activities ordinarily seen in public and therefore not included. In particular, the exclusion of some ‘intimate images’ risks ...
Levine, who first tried to repeal the law in 2018, told CNN that fornication was charged as a crime as recently as five years ago. It was piled onto existing charges for people accused of sex crimes, he said. The fornication law was listed under "crimes involving morals and decency" in...
CNN’s Laura Coates speaks with Elizabeth Price, the mother of Hisham Awartani, one of the three young Palestinian men shot in Burlington, VT, in an incident being investigated as a possible hate crime. About Laura Coates is CNN’s chief legal analyst and anchor of Laura Coates Live, airin...