hate crime

See also: hate-crime

English

Alternative forms

• hate-crime

Noun

hate crime (plural hate crimes)

1. A crime motivated by hate for a race, gender, religion, etc., which may result in harsh punishments, the severity of which varies by statute and the nature of the crime.
   • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):

     I feel a hate crime coming on.

   • 2002 Sean Pertwee as Father, Equilibrium, 24 minutes:

     The later twentieth century saw the fortuitous simultaneous rise of two synergistic political and psychological sciences. The first: the revolutionary precept of the hate crime.

Derived terms

• hate-crime (verb)

Translations

crime motivated by hate

• Arabic: جَرِيمَة كَرَاهِيَّة f (jarīma karāhiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仇恨罪行 (zh) (chóuhèn zuìxíng), 仇恨犯罪 (chóuhèn fànzuì)

• Esperanto: malamokrimo
• Finnish: viharikos (fi)
• French: crime haineux (fr) m
• German: Hasskriminalität f
• Hebrew: פשע שנאה m (pésha-sin'á)
• Japanese: ヘイトクライム (ja) (heitokuraimu), 憎悪犯罪 (ぞうおはんざい, zōo hanzai), 憎悪による犯罪 (zōo ni yoru hanzai)
• Korean: 증오범죄(憎惡犯罪) (jeung'o beomjoe)
• Portuguese: crime de ódio m
• Russian: преступле́ние на по́чве не́нависти n (prestuplénije na póčve nénavisti)
• Spanish: delito de odio m
• Swedish: hatbrott (sv) n
• Turkish: nefret suçu

See also

• hate group
• hate speech

Further reading

• hate crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia