#NOHATENJ

No Hate in the Garden State is a statewide campaign to raise public awareness about bias incidents and bias crimes, which target a protected status of the victim such as race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or religion.

 

In keeping with the Attorney General’s continued efforts to combat bias and hate, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) developed the campaign in collaboration with the Division on Civil Rights (DCR). No Hate in the Garden State will educate the public on the resources available to victims of bias incidents and bias crimes and will use television, print, radio, digital, and social media messaging to increase public awareness of incidents of bias and hate, encourage the reporting of such incidents, and prevent future incidents. In addition to training sessions for law enforcement and victim services professionals, the campaign also includes more intensive direct training programs for educators, students, and parents in communities most affected by bias incidents. The educational events will be designed to help better identify, report, charge, and prosecute bias crimes.

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WHAT IS A BIAS CRIME?

In New Jersey, what is commonly called a “hate crime” is the crime of Bias Intimidation.[1]. A bias crime occurs when an offender commits a specific “predicate offense” with a purpose to intimidate a member of a protected class or with knowledge that the conduct would cause intimidation against a member of a protected class.