Anti-Latino Hate Crime Up for Fourth Year - Schools and colleges and concentrations of Young People are very prone to Hate Crime

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Schools and colleges were the third largest venue for hate crimes
Concentrations of young people are more crime-prone than other segments of the population.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Hate Crimes
Anti-Latino Hate Crime Up for Fourth Year
Intelligence Report Winter 2008

Some excerpts :

Hate crimes targeting Latinos increased again in 2007, capping a 40% rise in the four years since 2003, according to FBI statistics released this fall.

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As anti-immigrant propaganda has increased on both the margins and in the mainstream of society — where pundits and politicians have routinely vilified undocumented Latino immigrants with a series of defamatory falsehoods — hate violence has risen against perceived "illegal aliens." Each year since 2003, the number of FBI-reported anti-Latino hate crime incidents has risen, even as a swelling nativist movement has become larger and more vitriolic.

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The FBI's latest report also found, as it has in most years, that schools and colleges were the third largest venue for hate crimes (with 11.3% of the total reported on campuses), after "in or near residences or homes" (30.5%) and "on highways, roads, alleys, or streets" (18.9%). Although many think of campuses as being bastions of open-mindedness, in fact they suffer the same pathologies as the rest of society. They also hold concentrations of young people, who are more crime-prone than other segments of the population.

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