Hijacking ‘Hate Crime’

According to Kamban Naidoo—Senior Lecturer, Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, University of South Africa:

Hate crimes were first recognised as a specific category of criminal conduct in the United States of America. Evidence of such recognition is supported by a number of state level and federal hate-crime laws that were enacted in the United States between the early 1980s and 1990s. There is a tendency in some American literature, however, to trace the recognition of hate crime as a sp...