Discuss the Purpose of Hate Crime Laws

question 9

Essay

Discuss the purpose of hate crime laws. Do proponents and critics believe that hate crime legislation can accomplish its goals?

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a disorder characterized by excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from those to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment.

Stranger Wariness

A developmental stage in infants and young children where they start to show apprehension or fear towards unfamiliar people.

Excessively

Doing or having something in a way that is beyond what is normal, necessary, or reasonable; overly or to an undue degree.

Percent

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