The New Yorker The story of a hate crime According to F.B.I. statistics, only a small minority of the people who commit hate crimes are affiliated with an intolerant group. Jack McDevitt, a criminologist at Northeastern University who studies hate crimes, thinks that Hicks’s act should be classified as one. “With hate crimes, it’s not always an either/or,” he said. “You can decide you […]
Axios Scoop: Antisemitic hate crimes hit record high in Boston Antisemitic hate crimes increased in Boston after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, but the uptick is also part of the yearslong trend of rising white nationalism, says Jack McDevitt, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University.
‘Why We Hate’ Author On Behavior Driving Recent Violent Attacks 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.
Should attacking police officers become a hate crime? A Minnesota city says yes. “Hate crimes against black Americans have had a long history in this country — we didn’t just see a rise of hate offenses against black Americans over a period of a month or two,” Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told U.S. News earlier this year. “Hopefully the ambushing of police officers will turn out to be a […]
Newsweek Why it’s important—and almost impossible—to classify the Charleston shooting as a hate crime Jack Levin, an expert in hate crimes and criminology at Northeastern University, says there’s no blanket explanation for why those states haven’t signed on. In South Carolina, hate crime legislation has been brought up in numerous legislative sessions, including every year between 2009 and 2014, and it will no doubt be debated again soon, in […]
Focus on marathon resiliency, not tragedy Feeling deceived, Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis stormed off the set of NBC’s Meet the Press in protest and in tears. Reportedly, she had agreed to appear on air so long as the names of the alleged bombers would not be mentioned during the broadcast, only to learn that the promise had been broken. […]