tical cultures and hate crime policy in the United States. Implementation of hate crime policy was seen much earlier and to a greater extent in moralist regions as opposed to later and less-inclusive implementation efforts that have evolved in traditional areas (4).In evaluating hate crime policies across all 50 states, it has become clearly evident that political culture makes a difference in what individual states choose to prioritize and how they go about taking action on such issues as bias-motivated behavior. In reviewing recent statistics, Daniel Elazar’s work on political culture, in addition to several other authors who have undertaken analyses of hate crime policy in the United States, clear patterns have emerged that, with a few minor exceptions, fall into line with the MPC, IPC, and TPC tendencies as proposed by Elazar. The long-standing political cultures have affected policy-making ever since our country was founded and continue to do so even today. To conclude, my hypotheses, which were based on the materials with which we have been presented throug0out the course, were proven correct. State adopting hate crime policies the earliest and states most likely to have hate crime policies or to initiate them are considered moralist, followed by individual states who fall somewhere in between MPC and TPC, then traditional, who are least likely to place as much emphasis on adopting such policies.Bibliography1.“Fighting Hate Crimes Across the Nation.” URL: http://www.civilrights.org/lcef/hcpc/fed/2.Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. “The Criminalization of Hate: A Comparison of Structural and Polity Influences on the Passage of ‘Bias-Crime’ Legislation in the United States.” Sociological Perspectives. 1 November, 1996: 129-154.3.Grattet, Ryken, Valerie Jenness, and Theodore R. Curry. “The Homogenization and Differentiation of Hate Crime Law in the United States, 1978 to 1995...
