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Concentration camps were first created because The National Socialist Government wanted to hold people that had different beliefs from them hostage. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust Asmith126 (talk) 02:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Article Evaluation

When reading the article I was distracted by having little information about the woman herself. Most of the information is out of date because most of the ghost sittings occurred in the 1800s/Early 1900s.

The article could be improved by having more information about the woman and sightings of her ghost added. Claims that the sightings were fake were added towards the end of the article.

David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act
My additions will be made to an article called the "David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act". It was passed in attempt to prevent crimes committed based on race, color, national origin,  religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the victim. It was passed in Texas in 2007 by Sheila Jackson Lee. Bills against hate crimes already existed by this bill basically had a few additions. While reading the Wikipedia article on this bill, I noticed that the information was limited. Readers are only provided the basics of the bill rather than being provided with background information on it. I want to add the causes of this bill being passed and if it has been effective/ineffective in preventing hate crimes.

This bill has changed the way I understand human rights history because I found it interesting that all of these bills and laws that have to be passed after these rights were already promised to us. I wanted to know why constitutional rights did not include protection against hate crimes. I wondered how long hate crimes had been occurring unpunished. In this bill it also lists updated repercussions for committing these hate crimes. I found that in Jasper, Texas in 1998, an African-American man named James Byrd Jr, was brutally murdered by 3 white supremacist.

"David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2013 (2013 - H.R. 90)." GovTrack.us. January 3, 2013. Accessed September 28, 2018. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr90.

Hate Crime Data Collection Guide: Uniform Crime Reporting. Austin, TX: Texas Dept. of Public Safety, Crime Records Division, 1993.

Israel, Constance Denney. Hate Crimes against Gays/lesbians in the Mainstream Press: An Examination of Six Texas Dailies. Las Colinas, TX: Monument Press, 1992.

Ktrk. "June 7, 1998: James Byrd Jr. Murder in Jasper, Texas." ABC13 Houston. June 07, 2018. Accessed September 28, 2018. https://abc13.com/june-7-1998-james-byrd-jr-murder-in-jasper-texas/3574314/.

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David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act

 * "It was designed to enhance Federal enforcement of laws regarding hate crimes, and to specifically make sexual orientation, like race and gender, a protected class."

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Article Outline
Jacobs, James B., and Jessica S. Henry. "The Social Construction of a Hate Crime Epidemic." The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) 86, no. 2 (1996): 366. doi:10.2307/1144030.

The Social Construction of a Hate Crime Epidemic


 * Hate Crimes are committed against people based on their correct or perceived race, sexuality, gender, and or disabilities.
 * The author feels like hate crime epidemics do not really exist.
 * “Epidemics cannot be social”
 * “In California there was an increase in crimes committed against Asians that were motivated by religious, racial, or ethnic prejudices.”
 * Resentment is said to be the root of hate crimes.
 * Hate crimes that are most prominent typically aren’t the best examples of hate crimes. The situations are always deeper than just being sexist, homophobic, or racist.
 * Politicians are more interested in being the face of anti-bias acts rather than actually caring about solving the problem.
 * In the eyes of the law it is difficult to determine rather or not crimes are actually hate crimes because motives are difficult to figure out.
 * The United States has trouble identifying what actually is “serious” enough to be considered a hate crime.
 * Overall thinks that this epidemic of hate crimes is actually a dramatization of reality.