Web Links and Other Resources

Useful links regarding hate crime in California:
  • Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission - www.lahumanrelations.org
  • City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission - www.lacity.org/hra/hrawa1.htm
  • Orange County Human Relations Commission - www.ochumanrelations.org
  • CA Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center - www.safestate.org
  • CA Attorney General's Hate Crime Report 2004 - www.caag.state.ca.us
    • Useful Federal Government Web Sites concerning Hate Crimes:
  • Department of Justice - www.caag.state.ca.us/
  • US Department of Justice, Community Relations Service, Hate Crime Training Curriculum www.usdog.gov/crs
  • US Department of Justice, Kids page www.usdoj.gov/kidspage
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics - www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html
  • Hate Crime/Discrimination Complaints -U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - www.usccr.gov/filing/flndx.htm
    • Useful links regarding hate crime in general:
  • American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - www.adc.org
  • American Jewish Committee - www.ajc.org
  • Anti-Violence Project (AVP) - www.lambda.org/avp_gen.htm
  • APA Public Affairs - www.apa.org/pubinfo/hate/
  • APA newspaper article about hate crimes - www.apa.org/monitor/jan98/hate.html
  • California Association of Human Relations Organizations - www.cahro.org
  • Center for Democratic Renewal "When Hate Groups Come to Town." - www.publiceye.org
  • Civil Rights.org - www.civilrights.org/issues/hate/
  • Hate Crime Laws - www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp
  • Hate Crime Network - www.hate-crime.website-works.com
  • Hate Crime Research Network - www.hatecrime.net/
  • Hate Crime.org - www.hatecrime.org/index.html
  • Japanese American Citizens League, Walk with Pride: "Taking Steps to Address Anti Asian Violence" - www.jacl.org
  • The Prejudice Institue.org - www.prejudiceinstitute.org
  • The Matthew Shepard Foundation - www.matthewshepard.org
  • National Crime Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - www.ncjrs.org/hate_crimes/summary.html
  • National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium "Audit of Violence Against Asian Pacific Americans" - www.napalc.org
  • Partners Against Hate www.partnersaganinsthate.org
  • People for the American Way "Study of American Youth on Race" - www.pfaw.org
  • Prejudice Institute - www.prejudiceinstitute.org
  • Religion and Gays - www.ReligionandGays.Org
  • Sikh Mediawatch And Resource Task Force - www.sidhmediawatch.org
  • Study Circles - www.studycircles.org
  • Stop Hate Web Listing Siteis site has a long list of relevant links - www.stophate.org/stophate/relatedlinks.html
  • QuestIa - http://www.questia.com/library/sociology-and-anthropology/criminology-and-crime/hate-crimes.jsp?CRID=hate_crimes&OFFID=se1&KEY=hate_crimes
    • Community Relations Service Contacts:

    Community Relations Service has Regional and Field Offices throughout the country in connection to the U.S. Department of Justice

  • CRS Headquarters 600 E Street, NW, Suite 6000 Washington, D.C. Phone: (202)305-2945; Fax: (202)305-3009; www.usdoj.gov/crs
  • Regional Office: Chicago, Il. 60603. Phone (312)353-4391 Fax: (312)353-4390
  • Southwest Regional Office: Dallas, TX. Phone: (214)655-8175; Fax: (214)655-8184
  • Field Office: Detroit, MI. Phone: (313)226-4040; Fax: (313)226-2568
  • Regional Office Denver, CO. Phone: (303)844-2973; Fax: (303)303)844-2907
  • Field Office: Houston, TX. Phone: (713)718=361; Fax: (713)718-4862
  • Central Regional Office: Kansas, MO. Phone: (816)426-7434; Fax: (816)426-7441
  • Western Regional Office: Los Angeles, CA. Phone: (213)894-2941; Fax:(213)894-2880
  • Field Office: San Francisco, CA. Phone: (415)744-6565; Fax: (415)744-6590
  • Northwest Regional Office: Seattle, WA. Phone: (206)220-6700; Fax: (206)220-6706
    • Links to Global Hate Crime Prevention and Research:
  • Anti Racism Information Services, Switzerland - www.antiracism-info.org/Public/pageHome.php
  • The Runnymede Trust - www.runnymedtrust.org/
  • The Commission for Racial Equality - www.cre.gov.uk/
  • The Canadian Heritage - www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/plan_action_plan/overview_vue_e_cfm"
    • Non Government Organizations links for information on Hate Crimes:
  • American Defamation League (ADEL) - www.adl.org
  • Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination - www.glaad.org/index.php"
  • Southern Poverty Law Center, Klanswatch Intelligence Report - www.splc.org
    • Web Sites Devoted to Psychology and Hate Crimes:
  • Herek, G.psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/bio.html
  • Franklin, Karenwww.karenfranklin.com/
  • Levin, Briancriminaljustice.csusb.edu/Levin.htm
  • Petrosino, Carolynwww.spssi.org/JSI_hatecrime.html


    • Useful University Web Sites concerning Hate Crimes:
  • UC Davis - www.psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hate_crimes.html
  • CSU-Stanislaus - www.cjwww.csustan.edu/hatecrimes/index.html
  • University of Delaware - www.udel.edu/stophate/
  • Gonzaga University- www.guweb2.gonzaga.edu
    • Useful Related Resources:
  • InfoPlease provides a good definition of hate crime - www.infoplease.com/spot/hatecrimes.html
  • Wikipedia entry for hate crime - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime
    • Films:

    "American History X" - "A former neo-Nazi skinhead (Norton) tries to prevent his younger brother (Furlong) from going down the same wrong path that he did"www.imdb.com

    "Not in Our Town" - "Five stories of Northern California communities, from the suburbs of Silicon Valley to Sacramento, standing up to hate." www.theworkinggroup.org/

    "Licensed to Kill" - "A frightening portrait of an America where homophobia is a deeply ingrained part of life, the template rather than the exception."www.deepfocusproductions.com/page_html.film_LTKO.html

    Visitors to UCLA Project on the Psychological Study of Hate Crimes