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GCSE History · key term
An offence motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person’s race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity.
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Paper 1
Revise: Nature and Changing Definitions of Criminal ActivityRacially motivated offences are hate crimes. Their defining feature is hostility or prejudice: an assault, harassment or damage to property can be a race crime when it has a racist motivation. Physical injury is not essential; abusive or threatening behaviour can also be involved.
Keep car theft separate from driving offences, and remember that hate crimes can involve threatening or abusive behaviour without physical injury.
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