All of those acts are clear-cut examples of possible hate crimes – crimes defined by state and federal laws as being motivated by bias or targeting someone based on characteristics like race ...

While hate crimes are motivated by prejudice and aim to harm specific groups or individuals, terrorism typically seeks to achieve broader political, ideological, or religious goals by instilling fear ...

It creates new, aggravated forms of certain existing offences such as hate crimes where they are aggravated by hatred of one or more of these protected characteristics. Incitement to hatred and ...

A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled Australia, with a dozen arrests for vandalizing or setting homes, schools, and ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law bills that would reclassify certain crimes as hate crimes, replacing Michigan’s 1988 ethnic intimidation law ...

After bowing to the opposition on mandatory minimum sentences, the Australian government needs to reestablish its leadership ...

The legislation creates new and bolstered hate crime offences protecting a raft of characteristics, including race, religion and gender. People who commit less serious hate crimes — such as ...