Hate Crimes


		Stop Hate Crimes!

		Hate crimes are criminal actions intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other minority group status. They are also referred to as bias crimes.
See Dr. Herek's blog for updates on hate crimes.		Since the 1980s, the problem of hate crimes has attracted increasing research attention, especially from criminologists and law enforcement personnel who have focused primarily on documenting the prevalence of the problem and formulating criminal justice responses to it. This section of the site reports data from Dr. Herek's national survey of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. It is the first study to document the extent of hate crime victimization in a nationally representative sample of sexual minority adults. Also reported here are data from the first large-scale study of the psychological impact of hate crimes based on sexual orientation. These data show that lesbian and gay hate crime survivors manifested more symptoms of psychological distress than lesbian and gay survivors of "random" assaults in the same time period.


			Learn more about Dr. Herek's national survey and download a preprint of the published paper reporting the study's main results.
			Learn more about Dr. Herek's study on the psychological consequences of hate crime victimization, download a preprint of the published paper reporting the study's main results, read first-person accounts from victims, get a copy of the research questionnaire, and more.
			Varieties of Hate Crime Victimization. Personal stories from the participants in Dr. Herek's Sacramento study.
			Information about Dr. Herek's book, Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men (with Kevin T. Berrill, Sage Publications, 1992)
			Listen to a podcast from KQED-FM's "Forum with Michael Krasny" on Hate Crimes Against Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders, featuring Dr. Herek (Broadcast date: July 18, 2006).
			The "Us" and "Them" of Murder, Dr. Herek's 1998 essay on the Matthew Shepard murder.
			Other publications on hate crimes by Dr. Herek and his colleagues
			A map of hate crime laws in the United States, from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
			Download annual reports from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects. (Requires Adobe Acrobat reader, version 5, which can be downloaded free of charge).
			Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe In Modern Dress, a report from the American Psychological Association.
			Licensed To Kill, Arthur Dong's documentary about murderers of gay men, is now available on video for non-commercial educational use.
			Links to other web sites with information about hate crimes
			Recent postings on Beyond Homophobia, Dr. Herek's Blog:


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