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It does not follow that motive is necessarily the best criterion for defining the harms and evils that hate crimes seek to punish. Using an actor's bigoted motivation as a defining characteristic creates special difficulties in implementation and application

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Hate Crimes: Crimes Of Motive, Character, Or Group Terror?, Paul H. Robinson Jan 1993

Hate Crimes: Crimes Of Motive, Character, Or Group Terror?, Paul H. Robinson

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hate crimes, criminal liability