Hate Crimes In America. Hate crimes are crimes represent the bias motivated crimes when the criminal commits crimes in order to hurt a particular social group against which she/he has a bias (King, 142). Typically hate crimes are crimes done against certain social groups based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, political preference, […]
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Social Psychology and Racism
Social psychology addresses the concepts of racism by analyzing publicly expressed racial or national prejudices. Most issues are presented in terms of joint efforts of society as a whole. The ideas that one individual has tends to transfer to others in that individual’s society.
There are four main concepts involved is associating Social Psychology and racism. Stereotyping, Prejudicial Stereotyping, Projection and Scapegoating.