Hate Crime Prevention Related Links

The following links provide several resources and information related to hate crime prevention on college campuses as well as organizations working to combat hate in communities.

University Initiatives in Higher Education

Hate Crimes/Hate Groups and Prejudice: A Selective Bibliography of Materials at the UMD Library
http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/reference/bibl/hate.html

University reporting
www.asuc.org/hatecrimes/main.html
Hate crimes education, resources and reporting at the University of California, Berkeley.

Miami University Hate Crimes Idea Bank Web Page
http://www.muohio.edu/~ajjipson/IDEABANK.HTML

No Hate Resource Site: Response to Hate Crimes in the Miami University Community
http://www.muohio.edu/nohate/

The Amerherst Student RC's Sponsor New Hate Crimes Awareness Week
http://www.amherst.edu/~astudent/1999-2000/issue015/news/07.shtml#top

University of Missouri-Columbia
http://students.missouri.edu/~report/
The Hate Report "Voices for Change

NECUSA (Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association
http://www.bates.edu/~sbrooks/necusa/index.html
Article entitled New Plan Seeks Disclosure on Campus Hate Crimes.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/

Welcome to Matrix Unbound: The Online Magazine for Leaders in Higher Education
http://www.matrix-magazine.com/

CUNY resources
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisci/pcurrah/genderlaw/
Provides a collection of articles, case law overviews, discrimination laws, hate crime laws, and employer policies related to transgenderism.

National Organizations & Related Resources

Diversity.com

Anti-Defamation League website
http://www.adl.org/default.htm

Anti-Defamation League information on Hate Crimes
http://www.adl.org/focus_sheets/focus_hate_crimes.html

Peruse the "Stop Hate" area that's part of the group focusing on stopping the unfair treatment of people
http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/main.html

Journalism Resources on Hate

American Psychological Association
www.apa.org/pubinfo/hate/
An introduction to and FAQs about hate crimes. Find suggestions about to how to combat the trend.

U.S. Dept of Justice Publications, Community Relations Services
www.usdoj.gov/crs/publist.html
Provides several publications related to hate crimes impacting the community.

California Association of Human Relations Organizations.
http://www.cahro.org/
Serves as a resource for organizations working to promote civil rights and addresses issues of hate crime, human and group relations issues, and police-community relations.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund
http://www.civilrights.org/crlibrary/issues/hate_crimes/index.html

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Harassment/
Find a step-by-step guide for schools to eliminate hate crimes and sexual harassment. Lists publications and reference materials.

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HateCrime/start.html
Check out this manual that addresses harassing, intimidating, violent and other hate-motivated behavior among students.

The Nizkor Project
http://ftp.nizkor.org/
Dedicated to the millions of Holocaust victims who suffered and died at the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.

Gender Education and Advocacy
http://www.gender.org/
Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a new national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. We seek to educate and advocate, not only for ourselves and others like us, but for all human beings who suffer from gender-based oppression in all of its many forms. We also are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in Georgia.

HateCrime.org
http://hatecrime.org/

HateWatch
http://hatewatch.org/frames.html
HateWatch is combatting the evolving problem of online bigotry.

Extremists on the Internet sponsored by HBO
www.hbo.com/hate/home.shtml

Human Rights Campaign
http://www.hrc.org/issues/hate/
Human Rights Campaign website with research and information on fighting anti-gay hate crimes.

Hate Crimes Research Network
www.hatecrime.net

Anti-Asian hate crimes
http://janet.org/~ebihara/aav.html
Information and resource storehouse aspires to educate the public in order to reduce the prevalence of anti-Asian hate crimes with information on organizations and laws.

FBI research
http://www.lambda.org/fbi980108pr96stats.htm
Press release summarizes the FBI's research on the rate and demographics of US hate crimes in 1996.

Report HATE
http://www.lambda.org/glnvah.htm
Call the 24-hour hot-line or fill out a form to report a hate crime. Also find recent crime statistics or join the mailing list.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org/hate_crimes/hate_crimes.html

National Center for Victims of Crime
http://www.ncvc.org/special/hatec.htm
National Center for Victims of Crime presents a summary of hate-crime statistics in the late 1990s and recommended community responses.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
http://www.ngltf.org/
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has worked to eliminate prejudice, violence and injustice against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at the local, state and national level since its inception in 1973.

Hate crime prevention resources
http://www.no-hate.org/index.html
Links to hate crime prevention resources, a listing of organizations to contact that offer help to victims of hatred, discrimination, violence, intolerance, etc. and a page of quotations on these subjects and what can be done about them

Not In Our Town
www.pbs.org/niot/programs/index.htm
Public television documentaries on hate crimes present campaign activities, videos, and a curriculum guide.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
http://www.pflag.org/

Hate crime class
Trends & patterns, activism, legislation, media coverage, law enforcement, courts.

Southern Poverty Law Center
www.splcenter.org
A non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.

Students unite to stop hate
www.stopthehate.org
Join other students to develop projects in your school that promote diversity and challenge bigotry.

Stop Violence
http://www.stopviolence.com/
This site collects information about non-repressive responses to a variety of violence: school and workplace violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes. Many organizations dedicated to social justice are linked to, along with ways for people viewing this page to help by volunteering, donating, surfing the web & shopping.

United Against Hate
http://www.unitedagainsthate.org/
A coalition of hate crime partners to organize against hate crimes and to support efforts toward hate crime prevention

Erase the Hate
http://www.usanetwork.com/functions/nohate/erasehate.html
Erase the Hate is USA Networks' acclaimed CableACE and Emmy Award-winning public affairs initiative dedicated to combating hate and racism while promoting respect and understanding.

Guide to hate crimes
http://www.texasnaacp.org/hateguid.htm
A policymaker's guide to hate crimes.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police
http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/Pubs/hatecrime.htm

Help stop the hate
http://www.ufmcc.com/violence.htm
A list of eighteen things that an ordinary citizen can do to help stop hate crimes.

One America
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/OneAmerica/whc.html
On November 10, 1997, the President convened the first-ever White House Conference on Hate Crimes, a day-long event held at The George Washington University. At the Conference, the President announced significant law enforcement and prevention initiatives to get tough on hate crimes. The Conference examined the positive actions that communities are taking and outline the steps we all can take to prevent hate crimes.

Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society
http://www.antiracist.com

Civilrights.org
http://www.civilrights.org/index_active.html

Human Rights Campaign -- Working for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
http://www.hrc.org/
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 H.R. 1082/S. 622 and other resources

Lambda GLBT Community Services
http://www.lambda.org/

LINK the College Magazine
http://www.civilrights.org/index_active.html

National Center for Victims of Crime
http://www.ncvc.org/

NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org/hate_crimes/hate_crimes.html

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
www.civilrights.org

NAACP National Headquarters
www.naacp.org

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
www.napalc.org

National Council of La Raza
www.nclr.org

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
www.nowldef.org

A cry for help:Hate Crimes on Campus
www.linkmag.com/Link/april_00/hatecrimes.html

Partners Against Hate

  Community Programs

San Francisco
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/da/hate.htm
District Attorney's office in San Francisco reserves a special unit for the review and prosecutions of hate crimes. Find area resources.

Baltimore Activists Coalition
http://www.gratefuldread.net/act/bac.html
A grassroots direct-action organization that advocates for social and economic justice in Baltimore and Central Maryland. BAC members are drawn from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, heterosexual, and progressive communities and work together to end violence, discrimination, injustice and intolerance.

Hate crimes working group
http://www.korrnet.org/knohate/
In an effort to counter what appeared to be an increase of hate/bias crimes in the Knoxville region, the Hate Crimes Working Group (HCWG) was formed in 1996.

Foot and bike patrol
http://www.qpatrol.org/
Foot and bike patrol was formed in response to gay-related hate crimes in Seattle. Check out the escort services and self-defense classes.

Indiana Civil Rights Commission
http://www.state.in.us/icrc/hate/
Indiana Civil Rights Commission Hate Crimes Reporting Network Indiana Government Center

Governor's task force (Massachusetts)
http://www.state.ma.us/StopHate/
The Governor's Task Force on Hate Crime is an agency linking representatives of state and local law enforcement with community advocates to ensure state government's commitment to the eradication of bias-motivated crime throughout Massachusetts.

FAQs
http://www.state.wv.us/hatecrimes/
Provides FAQs about hate crimes and includes statistics. Read about state laws that address hate crimes.

Promoting Tolerance Through Understanding
http://www.teachtolerance.org/
Promoting Tolerance Through Understanding, a high school elective class, at San Clemente High School addresses issues of prejudice, hatred, discrimination, and the end result of these societal ills -- the violence that often is the aftermath.

Hate Crimes Community United Against Violence
http://www.xq.com/cuav/hatecr1.htm
We offer a 24 Hour crisis line for people who have experienced hate-motivated violence. Also provides links to other anti-violence projects.

Not in Our Town
http://www.pbs.org/niot/

Project Change
http://www.projectchange.org/hatecrimes.htm
Project Change was established in 1991 by Levi Strauss & Co. through its corporate foundation to address racial prejudice and institutional racism in four communities throughout the United States: Albuquerque, NM; El Paso, TX; Knoxville, TN; and Valdosta, GA.

Study Circles Resource Center
http://www.studycircle.org/

Ten Ways to Fight Hate
http://www.crosswinds.net/~diversityteam/10ways.htm
A Community Response Guide

USA Network - Erase the Hate
http://www.usa-network.com/functions/nohate/erasehate.html

Statistics

Hate crime stats
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm
Hate crime statistics 1995-98, training guide for hate crime data collection, and hate crime data collection guidelines.

Laws & Legal Issues

ADL Hate Crimes Laws
www.adl.org/frames/front_99hatecrime.html

Hate Crimes Prevention Act
http://www.hrc.org/issues/leg/hcpa/

Hate crimes: The state laws
www.msnbc.com/modules/HateCrimes_SBS/stateframe.asp

Hate crime laws
Hate Crime Laws Rely On Motives, Not Targets, Laurel Slaying Illustrates Fine Line , By Ruben Castaneda, Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, October 26, 1998; Page D01 

Publications

Hate Hurts
http://www.adl.org/frames/front_ctboh.html
ADL's innovative new book, Hate Hurts, co-authored by Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann, and published by Scholastic Inc. explores how to answer difficult questions frequently asked by young people about prejudice.

Losing Matt Shepard
Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda. The murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America´s bitter history of violence against minorities. While the details of the tragedy are familiar to most people, the complex local context is not. This book explores why the murder still haunts us - and why it should.

Punishing Hate
Punishing Hate : Bias Crimes Under American Law by Frederick M. Lawrence

Criminal Law and Identity Politics
Hate Crimes : Criminal Law & Identity Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by James B. Jacobs, Kimberly Potter

Hate Crimes : The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed
Hate Crimes : The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed by Jack Levin, Jack McDevitt

Research publications
http://www.irn.pdx.edu/~blazakr/publicat.htm
Hate crimes research publications.

Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
http://psyweb.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hate_crimes_book.html
Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men. Edited by Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D. & Kevin T. Berrill. (Sage Publications, 1992). Named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1992 by Choice Magazine, American Library Association. Recipient of a 1993 Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

Search hate crimes
Barnes & Nobel search on hate crimes provides many titles.

Government Resources

FBI Hate Crime Report Info
http://www.fbi.gov

Annual Reports on Hate Crimes in Schools and College Campuses (Memorandum for the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education)
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/04-1999/wh-0406a.html

Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.fbi.gov/
Initiatives and data.

Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College/University Campuses
U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service
http://www.soconline.org/resources/police/hatecrimes.html

US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/
Hate Crimes search

U.S. Department of Justice/Office of Justice Programs/Office for Victims of Crime
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/welcome.html
Help for Victims of Hate and Bias Crimes, Resources for Responding to Hate Crimes.

US Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/hate/technical_assistance.htm
Hate Crime Technical Assistance and Training