Background: On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was gunned down while jogging near his Georgia home. Portions of the physical altercation were caught on camera by one of the three men charged in the murder. The shooter reportedly uttered a racial epithet at Arbery as he lay in the street dying. Georgia is one of the four states without hate crime laws in the United states, but the FBI is currently investigating the shooting as a potential hate crime

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Research Projects Terrorism Research Center 6-18-2020 Less than Half of Racially-Motivated Homicides Result in Official Hate Crime Charges Jeff Gruenewald University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, jgruenew@uark.edu Katie Ratcliff University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/tercpr  Part of the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, and the Terrorism Studies Commons Citation Gruenewald, J., & Ratcliff, K. (2020). Less than Half of Racially-Motivated Homicides Result in Official Hate Crime Charges. Research Projects. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/tercpr/23 This Brief is brought to you for free and open access by the Terrorism Research Center at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Projects by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact scholar@uark.edu.    50 40 30 20 10 0 trc@uark.edu (479) 575 - 3206An official hate crime charge was filed in less than one-thirdof all bias homicides included in the Bias Homicide Database40% of bias homicides targeting victims because of their race,ethnicity, or immigrant status resulted in official bias homicidecharges44% of bias homicides specifically targeting Black victimsresulted in official bias homicide charges   terrorismresearch.uark.eduData: Data on 357 bias homicides targeting 480 victims came fromthe Bias Homicide Database (BHDB). All homicides occurredbetween 1990 and 2019. Victims were targeted because of theirracial/ethnic/immigrant status, sexual orientation/gender identity,religious affiliation, or homeless status.  Background: On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was gunned downwhile jogging near his Georgia home. Portions of the physical altercation were caught on cameraby one of the three men charged in the murder.  The shooter reportedly uttered a racial epithet atArbery as he lay in the street dying. Georgia is one of the four states without hate crime laws inthe United states, but the FBI is currently investigating the shooting as a potential hate crime. a felonious killing inwhich evidence existsthat victims weretargeted in part orwholly based on one ormore real or perceivedstatus or identitycharacteristics.DATA SNAPSHOTLess than Half of Racially-Motivated HomicidesResult in Official Hate Crime Chargesof racial/ethnic/immigrant victimswere targeted specifically becausethey were Black (or bi-racial).To Cite: Terrorism Research Center. (2020). Less than half ofracially-motivated homicides result in official hate crime charges.Retrieved from https://terrorismresearch.uark.edu/data-snapshot-rmh-hate-crime-charges/.43%of bias homicides targetedvictims because of their racial,ethnic, or immigrant status.Official Hate Crime Charges47%Overall Race, Ethnicity,Immigrant Status Anti-Black 29%40%BIAS HOMICIDE:44%% of Bias Homicides Resulting in OfficialHate Crime Charges 

Less than Half of Racially-Motivated Homicides Result in Official Hate Crime Charges

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Research Projects Terrorism Research Center 6-18-2020 Less than Half of Racially-Motivated Homicides Result in Official Hate Crime Charges Jeff Gruenewald University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, jgruenew@uark.edu Katie Ratcliff University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/tercpr  Part of the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, and the Terrorism Studies Commons Citation Gruenewald, J., & Ratcliff, K. (2020). Less than Half of Racially-Motivated Homicides Result in Official Hate Crime Charges. Research Projects. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/tercpr/23 This Brief is brought to you for free and open access by the Terrorism Research Center at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Projects by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact ccmiddle@uark.edu.    50 40 30 20 10 0 trc@uark.edu (479) 575 - 3206An official hate crime charge was filed in less than one-thirdof all bias homicides included in the Bias Homicide Database40% of bias homicides targeting victims because of their race,ethnicity, or immigrant status resulted in official bias homicidecharges44% of bias homicides specifically targeting Black victimsresulted in official bias homicide charges   terrorismresearch.uark.eduData: Data on 357 bias homicides targeting 480 victims came fromthe Bias Homicide Database (BHDB). All homicides occurredbetween 1990 and 2019. Victims were targeted because of theirracial/ethnic/immigrant status, sexual orientation/gender identity,religious affiliation, or homeless status.  Background: On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was gunned downwhile jogging near his Georgia home. Portions of the physical altercation were caught on cameraby one of the three men charged in the murder.  The shooter reportedly uttered a racial epithet atArbery as he lay in the street dying. Georgia is one of the four states without hate crime laws inthe United states, but the FBI is currently investigating the shooting as a potential hate crime. a felonious killing inwhich evidence existsthat victims weretargeted in part orwholly based on one ormore real or perceivedstatus or identitycharacteristics.DATA SNAPSHOTLess than Half of Racially-Motivated HomicidesResult in Official Hate Crime Chargesof racial/ethnic/immigrant victimswere targeted specifically becausethey were Black (or bi-racial).To Cite: Terrorism Research Center. (2020). Less than half ofracially-motivated homicides result in official hate crime charges.Retrieved from https://terrorismresearch.uark.edu/data-snapshot-rmh-hate-crime-charges/.43%of bias homicides targetedvictims because of their racial,ethnic, or immigrant status.Official Hate Crime Charges47%Overall Race, Ethnicity,Immigrant Status Anti-Black 29%40%BIAS HOMICIDE:44%% of Bias Homicides Resulting in OfficialHate Crime Charges 

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