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Valerie Jenness
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Professor and Chair, Department of Criminology, University of California, Irvine. Coauthor of Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement.

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Hate crime, harassment, intimidation, or physical violence that is motivated by a bias against characteristics of the victim considered integral to his social identity, such as his race, ethnicity, or religion. Some relatively broad hate-crime laws also include sexual orientation and mental or…
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