First, review the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) webpage pertaining to hate crimes: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes (Links to an external site.)
Then, visit the United States Department of Justice’s webpage summarizing the FBI’s 2019 hate crime statistics: https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/hate-crime-statistics (Links to an external site.)
Finally, answer the following questions:
How does the FBI define hate crimes?
What is the FBI’s role in combatting hate crimes in the United States?
How does the FBI collect hate crime and other types of crime data/statistics?
What are the different bias motivation categories for hate crimes?
Which type of bias contributes to hate crimes the most? The least?
Where are hate crimes most likely to occur?