Hate_Crimes_Involving_Children_And_The_Differential_Associat

Hate Crimes Involving Children And The Differential Association Theory Hate Crimes Involving Children and The Differential Association Theory Abstract A study of Hate Crimes involving children and how they are influenced by their parents and peers. A summary of Sutherlands, Differential Association theory is included to explain this study. Several journals and resources were used to explain and define Hate Crimes and the Differential Association Theory. Included in this study are statistics form the National Crime Reports and information from experiments on peer and parental influence on children. The results of these experiments imply that strong family and peer influence at an early age is the backbone of a child’s beliefs. Hate Crimes Involving Children and the Differential Association Theory A hate crime is any bias motivated criminal incident committed against an individual or group crimes, hate, influence, theory, bias, motivated, family, association, people, peer, hatred, differential, children, blacks, antigay, 1998, study, strong, problem, friends, criminal, crime, believe, because, victim, towards, sutherland’s, race, parents, occurred, legal, incident, ethnicity, disability, delinquent