Children and hate crimes 11 Articles

by Arabella Kelly

At the top of the headlines on local TV news, there is a story about a physically handicapped man, 22, beaten and left to die on the streets of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. I listen to the story, appalled by t...read more

by Spencer Cane

Statistics tell a harrowing tale of our youth and hate crime in America. According to a special report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on Hate Crimes in 2001, younger offenders committed the most hate crimes. A f...read more

by Tammy Wright

I am not sure if hate crimes have risen so very much or if we just have an abundance of news reports telling us much more about them. Every time I read the paper I see where younger and younger children are being down righ...read more

by Tonya Barton

At the tender age of fourteen, my daughter decided that she would don what she called "punk" apparel. She said that is what she most "identified" with. Her choices after-all, were the cowboys, cheerleaders, jocks, prep...read more

by Craig Delano

I grew up in a town populated by two categories of people, White and Hispanic. Each of whom, held an extreme amount of prejudice over one another, which was something that I could never fully understand. I was raised by ...read more

by Helen Bradley

POP GOES THE WEASEL, that's what happens when a child snap. Sadly, it happens more than the media reports. What has our world come to, when our children are involved in a hate crime. It can happen to anyone, even me. I...read more

by Angela S. Young

On "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" last week, the contestant (Regis Philbin) mentioned carving his initials into his desk. One of the classmates' gasped and said, "You brought a knife to school!" This incident tells...read more

by Violet Fortune

Children often express a pack-like mentality. You see this amongst siblings, being played out with various themes of territoriality - "mine, yours, ours and mine". Hate crimes often begin around issues of territory or s...read more

by Magdalena Willow

Hate crimes are very common in school aged children. Some of these crimes are rather minor crimes yet devastating still to the inflicted child involved. Though a number of these crimes can reach brutal levels of physical v...read more

by PC Marks

"Zero Tolerance," the phrase heard at most schools as of late. Children listen to the same music on the latest gadgets. All have cell phones and other electronic gadgets. The school does not discriminate. No one is to ...read more

by Garet Voorhies

It never does happen to your child, does it? Thats what you think, what you truly believe, and how you really feel. That's not really always the case though is it? Violent crime is on the rise in our country, do you not th...read more