单词 | hate crime |
释义 | hate crimen. Originally U.S. A crime, usually violent, motivated by hatred or intolerance of a particular social group on the basis of ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexuality, etc. Also as a mass noun: crime of this type. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > other general types of crime political offence1771 street crime1853 crime passionnel1892 war crime1906 inside job1908 outside job1925 single-o1930 hate crime1960 1960 Chicago Defender 5 Apr. a2/3 (heading) Urges law on hate crimes. 1984 Washington Post 14 July a19/3 Flynn has succeeded in preventing what are called ‘hate crimes’—violence against racial or religious minorities. 1998 R. H. Fenske & L. Gordon in A. M. Hoffman et al. Violence on Campus viii. 123 Why is a hate crime so deeply disturbing to society and so traumatic to the victim? 2001 Independent 17 Aug. 1/6 Scotland Yard is creating a category of hate crime, ‘transphobic crime’, to cover offences against transgender people. 2014 H. D. Aidi Rebel Music viii. 163 Discrimination against Middle Eastern Americans had risen precipitously as a result of hate crimes and policies associated with the War on Terror. CompoundsGeneral attributive. C1. With the first element in singular form, chiefly denoting either legislation relating to hate crime or incidents of hate crime. ΚΠ 1985 Pacific Stars & Stripes 23 Mar. 3/3 (headline) FBI calls ‘hate crime’ bill unrealistic, broad. 1993 Time Internat. 18 Jan. 8/1 4,558 hate crime incidents were reported in 1991. 2004 Community Care 8 Apr. 9/1 A third of disabled people in Scotland suffer hate crime attacks at least once a month. 2014 E. Aaronson From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime i. 8 Hate crime legislation has served..as a platform for many groups whose experiences of victimization have long been neglected by the criminal justice system. C2. With the first element in plural form, chiefly denoting legislation relating to hate crimes. ΚΠ 1985 Chicago Tribune 17 May i. 8/1 (headline) Justice Dept. opposes 3 ‘hate crimes’ bills. 1993 Chicago Tribune 19 June i. 5/1 Under the hate crimes law, criminal defendants face stiffer penalties if they target their victims because of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability. 2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 19 Mar. d4 Model legislation would include tracking of hate crimes statistics. 2014 T. M. Keck Judicial Politics in Polarized Times 263 The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act..extended existing federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1960 |
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