First, a hate crime law seeks to treat a crime, if it can be demonstrated that the offense was a ‘hate crime’, then it would be treated differently then under ordinary criminal law. Attempts have been made to reach a definition of a hate crime, including that it is a crime, most commonly violence, motivated by prejudice, bias or hatred towards a particular group of which the victim is presumed to be a member. As such, hate crime is generally directed towards a class of people; the individual victim is rarely significant to the offender and is most commonly a stranger to him or her. Hate crimes are said that they occur against a particular group, so in this case women could be targeted because of jealously, anger, and simply their vulnerability. With this, comes out cries from the media and the public ab

Also, there has been much controversy on what actually encompasses a hate crime under the current policy, and if gender should be included. In the United States, more then 40 states have hate crime laws of some description, but only 22 of them include gender. Extending the hate crime category to be capable of encompassing some crimes against women presents those arguing in favor of the enactment of hate crime laws with new possibilities and dilemmas. If we accept the logic of the definition of hate crimes, an extension to encompass gender would appear to demand a general reconceptualization of hate crimes, a reconceptualization that is currently not occurring. Conversely, a reconceptualization of some violent crimes against women as hate crimes has implications for existing criminal statutes that already deal with crimes including rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

Nonetheless, a shifting of the focus could allow hate crime legislation to be enacted which could help provide funding for a variety of non-penalty-based approaches to hate crimes. One option for this is to have funding go towards statistical data collection, which in turn would require appropriate training of those responses for data collection. Also,

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