Hate crime perpetrators are understandably perceived by many as terrorists, of a sort, who intimidate and harass whole communities.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said its own survey showed that 52% of British Jews believe that prosecutors were not doing enough to combat antisemitism, with only 39% of British Jews confident that hate crime perpetrators would be taken to court.
The APA goes on to note that many hate crime perpetrators believe "that society sanctions attacks on certain groups": "For example, Dr Karen Franklin, a forensic psychology fellow at the Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training, has found that, in some settings, offenders perceive that they have societal permission to engage in violence against homosexuals".
"The research also highlights which victim groups are more or less likely to be satisfied with the response of the criminal justice system to hate crimes and garners opinions on what should be done with hate crime perpetrators," he said.
Considering that being a victim of crime was found to be the most prevalent type of legal involvement in the study (67%), it was of interest to assess differences on key characteristics between victims of crime, perpetrators (who were not victims of crime), and patients without legal involvement.
Like choosing to defend a war-crime perpetrator, or a tobacco corporation.
The crime's perpetrator or perpetrators were never apprehended.
The consultation found social media provided hate-crime perpetrators with a veil of anonymity, making it harder to bring them to justice and potentially affecting a larger number of people.
Will he slap a little gold paint on the landscape, now that the Trump name is attached to it, or will he decide that it is still early enough for him to play the great detective, announcing his discovery of more crimes, perpetrators, and fiendish plots?
Government watchdogs hunted for the financial crimes perpetrators, and, discovering the Goldman/Paulson fraud, brought charges against... the French kid.
