Final Report of the Lieutenant Governor’s Commission on the Prevention of Hate Violence
At its most fundamental level, hate violence is an aggressive expression of hatred against another person or group of people simply because of who and what they are. But an act does not have to be criminal to be an act of hate;
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California and federal laws have made major advances in addressing the persisitant prtoblem of hate crimes in the last twenty years, enacting legislation to track hate crimes at both the federal and state level, enhancing penalties when crimes are motivated by bias, and training local and federal law enforcement to detect and prevent hate crimes. Yet, these heartening advances against hate crimes have not included gender-based crimes Neither federal nor California statutes covering statistics on hate crimes include gender as one of the bases. And ,the California law providing penalty enhancements for hate crimes also does not include gender.