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a stacked deck to be victorious.”325 Certainly “equality needs free speech,” but it needs a straightforward, direct exchange of ideas, not a faked crime that causes harm to both perpetrator and protected group alike.326
With several cases discussed above, especially those involving college students, there is a tendency to offer the offender solace, sympathy, or understanding. There is no justification for false reporting. Authorities who take a lenient approach minimize the magnitude of the crime committed.
“An administrator said harm from faked hate crimes went beyond monetary loss.”327 As discussed above, losses caused by hate crime hoaxes include harm to protected classes, both to the real victims and the communities at large. There are also monetary losses associated with the false reporting of any crime. Time and resources used in investigating false reports could certainly be put to better use than to be wasted attempting to investigate a non-existent crime. Public entities and colleges do not have the opportunity to pass on the cost of a hoax to the consumer, as private companies can. They should find a way to absorb the additional expense by taking funds from another area to pay for tracking down a viper. Any money wasted in such a way is a travesty.
A solution to the problem is prosecution, punishment and restitution.
The following compelling are statements from officials who dealt with the case involving the Claremont McKenna professor who faked a hate crime:
325 Timothy C. Schiell, Campus Hate Speech in Trial, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, 1998.
326 Ibid.
327 Wendy Thermos, “Teacher Gets Prison in Hate Crime Hoax,” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2004, p. B.3.
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 113 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 107 a stacked deck to be victorious.”325 Certainly “equality needs free speech,” but it needs a straightforward, direct exchange of ideas, not a faked crime that causes harm to both perpetrator and protected group alike.326 With several cases discussed above, especially those involving college students, there is a tendency to offer the offender solace, sympathy, or understanding. There is no justification for false reporting. Authorities who take a lenient approach minimize the magnitude of the crime committed. “An administrator said harm from faked hate crimes went beyond monetary loss.”327 As discussed above, losses caused by hate crime hoaxes include harm to protected classes, both to the real victims and the communities at large. There are also monetary losses associated with the false reporting of any crime. Time and resources used in investigating false reports could certainly be put to better use than to be wasted attempting to investigate a non-existent crime. Public entities and colleges do not have the opportunity to pass on the cost of a hoax to the consumer, as private companies can. They should find a way to absorb the additional expense by taking funds from another area to pay for tracking down a viper. Any money wasted in such a way is a travesty. A solution to the problem is prosecution, punishment and restitution. The following compelling are statements from officials who dealt with the case involving the Claremont McKenna professor who faked a hate crime: 325 Timothy C. Schiell, Campus Hate Speech in Trial, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, 1998. 326 Ibid. 327 Wendy Thermos, “Teacher Gets Prison in Hate Crime Hoax,” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2004, p. B.3. |
