id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dcovxjm4frbxxceplnepvtji54 Key Sun THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF HATE CRIME AND THE HATE OFFENDER'S DISTORTED COGNITIONS 2006 9 .pdf application/pdf 2812 203 48 prejudice involve misrepresenting the self's responsibility and intergroup reality and using the distinctiveness of the victim (e.g., ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation) to rationalize and justify the offense(s). addition, using group differences between the hate offender and the victim to explain hate crimes (e.g., ethnic conflict) only focuses on how the The group differences for the hate offender and victim do not explain mental state involves using the victim memberships to justify and rationalize hate crime, including applying such methods as denials of state/reasoning and the variable of group memberships of the hate offender and his or her victim. in the legal definition of hate crime involves the descriptions of the offender's mental state that includes the content of the required criminal This article suggests that clinical interventions need to include teaching the survivors of hate crime to attribute their victimizations to the Hate Crime and Offenders' Distorted Cognitions 603 ./cache/work_dcovxjm4frbxxceplnepvtji54.pdf ./txt/work_dcovxjm4frbxxceplnepvtji54.txt