Jack Levin

Jack Levin, professor emeritus at Northeastern University and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, said prosecutions under hate crime laws “send a message to the victims that there are many other people in this county or city or state who care about them.”

Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin said the killings appear to fit a pattern of recent race-fueled attacks. “There’s a much larger group of white supremacists who were inspired by organized hate groups on the right,” Levin said, “who give to these individuals what they never got before. And that is a feeling of power.”

NPR’s Michel Martin taks with Jack Levin of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University, about the motivations of people who commit hate crimes and bias attacks.

 “Hate crime laws have important symbolic meaning,” Jack Levin, an expert on hate crimes at Northeastern University, told Vox. “They send a message to two groups: They send it to the perpetrator, informing him that our community will not tolerate his intolerance. And then at the same time, they send a message to potential victims that they […]

Boston 25 News sat down with Northeastern University’s criminology expert, Jack Levin, who has studied these killings for decades. The recent uptick this week, he said, is a vicious cycle.

Northeastern University Criminologist Jack Levin is concerned that we could see more violence associated with the change of presidential administrations. Last week rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building as the House was preparing to certify the Electoral College’s election of Joe Biden.

Most Jews are hard for would-be attackers to identify as Jewish, says Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University.