The Internet's Promise to Improve Bias-Crime Reporting: The Case for Including Bias Crimes on Official Crime-Reporting Websites | Zendy

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The Internet's Promise to Improve Bias-Crime Reporting: The Case for Including Bias Crimes on Official Crime-Reporting Websites

Author(s) -

Jordan Blair Woods

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of hate studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2169-7442

pISSN - 1540-2126

DOI - 10.33972/jhs.69

Subject(s) - sexual orientation , dark figure of crime , criminology , law enforcement , ethnic group , the internet , property crime , political science , race (biology) , law , business , psychology , sociology , violent crime , social psychology , computer science , gender studies , world wide web

This article argues that online crime reporting has the potential to improve bias-crime reporting and proposes that U.S. law enforcement departments include bias crimes on their official crime-reporting websites. In this article, I use the term bias crime to refer to criminal offenses committed against persons or property intentionally selected on the basis of identity characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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