Number: RL33099
Title: State Statutes Governing Hate Crimes
Authors: Charlene A. Austin and Paul S. Wallace, Jr., American Law Division 
Abstract: This report compiles state statutes pertaining to hate crimes. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 defines hate crime in §280003a as a "crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of property crime, the property that is the object of the crime" motivated by prejudice based on the "race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation" of the victim, P.L. 103-322, 108 Stat. 2096 (1994).
Pages: 25
Date: Updated September 21, 2005