The UMKC Women’s Center and Violence Prevention and Response Project are again challenging men at UMKC and in the Kansas City community to help stop violence against women by walking a mile in her shoes. Literally. UMKC’s sixth annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes: An International Men’s March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault, and [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Hate Crimes category.
The Hate Crime Statistics Report – Gender-Motivated Violence
By Dr. Jessica Hodge, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology As someone who studies hate crimes and teaches a class about the subject, I find myself anticipating every year the release of the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics report.[1] In this report, the FBI provides a variety of statistics involving the types of hate crime incidences [...]
