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Training-of-Trainers Update
Partners Against Hate staff trains cadres of trainers across the country to work with educators and youth to prevent bias, prejudice, bullying, harassment, and hate crimes among youth.
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About PAH
Partners Against Hate offers promising education and counteraction strategies for young people and the wide range of community-based professionals who work and interact with youth, including parents, law enforcement officials, educators, and community/business leaders.
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Featured Stories
Why You Should Take Bullying Seriously
How often have you heard the phrase "boys will be boys" or "it's just kid stuff?" That's what used to be said about bullying and harassment in schools. Unfortunately, bullying in schools has grown into a major problem over the last several years. School bullies have tended to target students who seem most vulnerable and easy to harm or distress. Educators should be especially concerned about bullying because it can adversely affect the emotional and academic well being of students.
Simply put, any child who does not feel safe at school simply cannot concentrate on schoolwork. In many cases, victims of bullying simply choose to leave school. In fact, one out of every ten students who drop out of school does so because of repeated bullying, according to a 1995 study done by the National Education Association. read more
The Facts on Youth Hate Crime
Although there is a paucity of available data on youth hate crime, all indications are that a disproportionate number of both hate crime victims and offenders are juveniles.
According to researchers who analyzed 1995-2000 crime data from the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, about 29 percent of all hate crime incidents involve offenders under the age of 18, with approximately 55 percent of all offenders aged 24 and under -- the vast majority of which are males. Individuals aged 24 and under comprised over 47 percent of all hate crimes victims. Importantly, the data documented that the majority of these crimes occur immediately after school - when many youth are unsupervised.
This study found that, like other hate crimes, the majority of youth hate violence is directed against individuals and groups because of their race - and that these victims and offenders are frequently already acquainted before the commission of a bias crime. Of the 1,567 hate crimes committed by offenders under the age of 18 in the study, 89 percent were committed against individuals (most frequently assault and intimidation) and almost 22 percent of theses crimes occurred at school or college. read more | |
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Project Director's Note
On a web site where the game "Ethnic Cleansing" can be purchased, makers of the game make the following boast:
"Run through the ghetto blasting away various blacks and spics in an attempt to gain entrance to the subway system, where the jews have hidden to avoid the carnage. Then, if YOU'RE lucky.... you can blow away jews as they scream "Oy Vey!", on your way to their command center."
Have you ever wondered about the video games your child is playing at home? Unfortunately, racist and violent images are part of many video games currently available to purchasers-many of whom are teenagers--on the open market.
Nearly 66 million children and teens under the age of 18 are video game players. One-third of all video games purchased are rated "M" for mature audiences only.
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Michael T.S. Wotorson
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