id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ai35e5n2g5a25iortizigdbzki Bernard P. Haggerty Hate crime law & social contention : a comparison of nongovernmental knowledge practices in Canada & the United States 2008 388 .pdf application/pdf 143195 11792 62 In the United States a national Hate Crime Statistics Act encourages, but does not require, police minor, local hate crime reporting law, "makes a difference," by putting a community "on record" differences in the hate crime law and labeling systems in the United States and Canada, and the requiring police to conduct an official hate crime statistical inquiry in the United States. variable: unlike Seattle, Vancouver police do not gather and publicly report official hate crime analytical comparison of hate crime law and equality in Canada and the United States. formally neutral text, the United States Supreme Court has held that hate crime laws do not existing civil rights laws to authorize hate crime prosecutions in federal court. As in Canada, few American court decisions that pre-date hate crime sentencing laws Table 3.2—Equality Rights Language in Hate Crime Laws (United States & Canada) Table 3.2—Equality Rights Language in Hate Crime Laws (United States & Canada) ./cache/work_ai35e5n2g5a25iortizigdbzki.pdf ./txt/work_ai35e5n2g5a25iortizigdbzki.txt