Democracy in Theory and Practice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.03.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objective
  4. Teaching Strategy
  5. Overview and Facts on Terrorism
  6. All Muslims are not Radical Fundamentalist - a look at Hate Crimes
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. APPENDIX A
  10. APPENDIX B
  11. APPENDIX C
  12. APPENDIX D
  13. APPENDIX E
  14. NOTES

Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System

Christine Shaub

Published September 2008

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APPENDIX D

Hate Crime Incidents, Offenses, and Victims,
by Bias Motivation, 2006
Bias Motivation Incidents Offenses Victim1
TOTAL 7,722 9,080 9,652
RACE 4,000 4,737 5,020
Race-multiple race groups [for which
Islam would be included]2
229 291 320
Anti-Islamic 156 191 208

1 The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.

2 In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases. [2006 Hate Crime Statistics, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of

Investigation, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/incidents.html]

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