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last day of his life, he was walking home from his niece’s bridal shower, June 6, 1998, when three white men offered Mr. Byrd a ride, but instead beat him and then chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to his death.314 Mr. Byrd’s body was discovered in pieces along a two-mile stretch of a Jasper Texas back road. He was unrecognizable, only fingerprints would identify this once quiet and friendly man.
Another actual hate crime was the senseless death of Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one year old college student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. On a cold and dark night, he was beaten and tortured and left hanging from a fence to die. He survived to be taken to a local hospital only to die hours later from the extent of his injuries. Matthew’s life ended because he was gay.
Being a survivor of a hate crime has a similar lasting tragic effect. Three white supremacists chased siblings, Deona, Juwon and Tywon Williams and a friend as they walked home from a high school foot ball game. Deona was grabbed and with a knife at her throat told: “Remember our faces, [racial epithet]. This is our town and you better get out before we kill you.”315 The family moved out of the community to start over, but life might never be the same. The children were constantly looking over their shoulders, the parents kept them inside to protect them from harm, all while the parents tried to explain that “they shouldn’t condemn an entire race of people because of the actions of a few.”316
314 Jeannine Bell, Policing Hatred, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights and Hate Crime, New York University Press, Albany, New York, 2002.
315 Dawn Turner Trice, “Hate-Crime Hoax a Misguided Way to Make a Point,” Chicago Tribune, November 24, 2003, p. 1.
316 Ibid.
Object Description
| Title | An argument for the criminal hoax |
| Author | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Author email | user1963@yahoo.com; teachpolsci@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-20 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Renteln, Alison Dundes |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wong, Janelle S. Newland, Chester A. |
| Abstract | Hoaxes are part of the fabric of history. While many provide humor and lighthearted joy, the criminal hoax does not. To date, researchers have included aspects of the criminal hoax in larger academic works. This is an original typology that sets forth the criminal hoax as a distinct part of the larger field of law and public policy. This work provides newly created definitions including four distinct categories of hoaxes: the monetary hoax, the attention getter hoax, the hate crime hoax and the racial hoax. It further illustrates these types with actual detailed accounts of hoaxes and provides insights to each one. It makes policy recommendations concerning the four categories of needs: 1. legislative action, 2. a nationwide statistical database of hoax events, 3. media involvement, and 4. law enforcement training and action to deal with criminal hoaxes. Finally, it recommends further research to identify the causes and motivations of vipers. The ultimate goal of this project is to find ways to eliminate criminal hoaxes. |
| Keyword | criminal hoax; hoax categories |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1659 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Pellegrini-2397 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Pellegrini-2397.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 109 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 103 last day of his life, he was walking home from his niece’s bridal shower, June 6, 1998, when three white men offered Mr. Byrd a ride, but instead beat him and then chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to his death.314 Mr. Byrd’s body was discovered in pieces along a two-mile stretch of a Jasper Texas back road. He was unrecognizable, only fingerprints would identify this once quiet and friendly man. Another actual hate crime was the senseless death of Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one year old college student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. On a cold and dark night, he was beaten and tortured and left hanging from a fence to die. He survived to be taken to a local hospital only to die hours later from the extent of his injuries. Matthew’s life ended because he was gay. Being a survivor of a hate crime has a similar lasting tragic effect. Three white supremacists chased siblings, Deona, Juwon and Tywon Williams and a friend as they walked home from a high school foot ball game. Deona was grabbed and with a knife at her throat told: “Remember our faces, [racial epithet]. This is our town and you better get out before we kill you.”315 The family moved out of the community to start over, but life might never be the same. The children were constantly looking over their shoulders, the parents kept them inside to protect them from harm, all while the parents tried to explain that “they shouldn’t condemn an entire race of people because of the actions of a few.”316 314 Jeannine Bell, Policing Hatred, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights and Hate Crime, New York University Press, Albany, New York, 2002. 315 Dawn Turner Trice, “Hate-Crime Hoax a Misguided Way to Make a Point,” Chicago Tribune, November 24, 2003, p. 1. 316 Ibid. |
