What Is a Hate Crime?

What Is a Hate Crime? by Roman Espejo

This book has a series of essays on hate crimes, mostly structured in pairs of opposing views. A lot has changed in the two decades since this was written. The concept of hate crimes has become much more widely accepted. However, the underlying concerns still exist. It is almost as if we have got the worst of both of worlds. "Hate" has become an arbitrary option to apply to crimes that continues to be il-defined. After all, just about every major crime has involved some hate. The concept of "hate speech" has become even more convoluted and arbitrary. Can we regulate speech, yet still have free speech?