Useful Information for Jury Selection?

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Jury Selection, Research, Trial Tips and Techniques, Voir Dire

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Study Finds Racial, Ethnic Divide In Attention To Crime News, by Sabrina I. Pacifici, BeSpacific Blog

http://www.bespacific.com/study-finds-racial-ethnic-divide-in-attention-to-crime-news/

‘Crime consistently ranks as one of the most followed and discussed topics by the public, and it receives more attention in local news media than almost any other subject. A recent Pew Research Center report reinforces these findings but also suggests that certain groups of residents pay closer attention to local crime than others in the three cities studied. A difference that particularly stands out is between racial and ethnic groups. . . .’

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2013 FBI Hate Crime Statistics.

21 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Research, Statistics

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FBI 2013 Hate Crime Statistics, by Sabrina I. Pacifica, BeSpacific Blog

http://www.bespacific.com/fbi-2013-hate-crime-statistics/

‘Today[December 9, 2014], the FBI released its annual Hate Crime Statistics report, which revealed that 5,928 hate crime incidents involving 6,933 offenses were reported by our law enforcement partners to the Bureau’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in 2013. These hate crime incidents impacted a total of 7,242 victims—which are defined as individuals, businesses, institutions, or society as a whole. The number of reported hate crimes last year is down slightly when compared to 2012 UCR figures—5,928 in 2013 versus the 2012 figure of 6,573. Hate Crime Statistics, 2013—the first UCR publication to contain data collected under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009—has a few changes from previous reports. First, biases against gender (male or female) and gender identity (transgender and gender nonconformity) have been added to the list of bias categories. And in response to the Shepard/Byrd Act, we modified our data collection so that reporting agencies can indicate whether crimes were committed by, or directed against, juveniles.’