Not necessarily, there has to be more to the crime than just the gender of the victim. Only certain classes of offenses are 'legally' classified as hate crimes and these involve racially based crimes and crimes against the LGBT community. Everybody else suffers only "ordinary" offenses, committed against them.
But it depends on the jurisdiction and the motivation of the attacker. The prosecutor would have to prove that the person targeted their victims because of actual hatred of women. Most muggers choose women because they carry purses or are simply convenient targets.
it is to prosecute victims of hate crimes based on race or gender
Hate crimes are considered social crimes. Hate crimes doesn't just affect the victim, but they can affect a nation, which makes them a social crime.
Hate crimes are also referred to as bias crimes.
Actually, prejudice, stereotype, and discrimination play 100% of the role in gay hate crimes. And most of this bad behavior is religious-based or lack-of-education-based.
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Hate crimes based on social status or standing. An example would be hate crimes against rich people by a poor person, because the poor person just hates rich people. Or, it could go the other way around. I'm pretty sure that's right.
Hate crimes against Asian-Americans is not especially common. Of course, hate crimes are pretty rare anyway.
Disabled activists often use the word 'disabilist' in the same way that those who hate based on gender would be labeled 'sexist' and those who hate based on race would be called 'racist'.
A hate crime is assaulting someone because of his race, sex, religious beliefs or other identifying group characteristic. A racist act is Affirmative Action or any other law that mandates special treatment based on race.
Hate crimes are usually related to both fear of the unknown and pure ignorance.
Hate crimes legislation sends a message that the United States does not support bigotry.
Discrimination. Hate crimes.