bias crime

bias crime
noun Date: 1982 hate crime

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • bias crime — noun (N American) A crime committed for racial reasons • • • Main Entry: ↑bias * * * bias crime, = hate crime: »A recent string of bias crimes…have stunned the city and once again strained race relations (New York Times) …   Useful english dictionary

  • crime — / krīm/ n [Middle French, from Latin crimen fault, accusation, crime] 1: conduct that is prohibited and has a specific punishment (as incarceration or fine) prescribed by public law compare delict, tort 2: an offense against public law …   Law dictionary

  • Crime in Toronto — has been relatively low for a very long period of time; the low crime rate in Toronto has resulted in the city having a reputation as one of the safest large cities in North America. Recent data from Statistics Canada shows that crime has been… …   Wikipedia

  • Crime statistics — attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies. Given that crime is usually secretive by nature, measurements of it are likely to be inaccurate. Several methods for measuring crime exist, including household surveys, hospital… …   Wikipedia

  • Crime in Washington, D.C. — Washington, D.C. Crime rates (2008) Crime type Rate* Homicide …   Wikipedia

  • Crime in the United States — Violent crime rates in the United states per 100,000 population beginning in 1960. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics …   Wikipedia

  • Crime fiction — Murder mystery redirects here. For other uses, see Murder mystery (disambiguation). Sherlock Holmes, pipe puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. Crime fiction is the… …   Wikipedia

  • Crime in Canada — Map of violent crime rates across Canada, 2007.   < 800 per 100,000 …   Wikipedia

  • News Bias — Die News Bias Forschung versucht die Ursachen von Einseitigkeiten und politischen Tendenzen in der Medienberichterstattung zu ermitteln. Im Vordergrund steht dabei der Zusammenhang zwischen den Einstellungen von Kommunikatoren und deren… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • hate crime — n: a crime that violates the victim s civil rights and that is motivated by hostility to the victim s race, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. hate crime …   Law dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”