A Tentative Analysis of Hate Crime from the Perspective of Symbolic Interaction Theory
Xianwei Zhang · Shandong Jingcha Xueyuan xuebao · 2014
Slightly different from western countries, hate crimes in China rooted from ordinary social contradictions instead of such extreme social conflicts as religious differences and religious discrimination. Before the happening of hate crime,perpetrators are trapped in conflicts and they regard those conflicts as prejudice, discrimination,and insult,jealousy under the influence of combination of subjective and objective factors. Influenced by this psychological state,perpetrators begin to have hatred plus the stimulation of traditional revenge culture in China and blocked way to take revenge,at last hate crimes happen. In this sense,an adverse interaction between perpetrators and victims is the main reason for triggering hate crime.