ABSTRACT
… In 1993 J. Levin and McDevitt suggested that hate crime offenders could be grouped into three major categories according to the motivation of the offenders involved. Based on interviews with police officials, victims, and several hate crime offenders, J. Levin and McDevitt developed a typology that identified three primary motivations: offenders who committed their crimes for the excitement or the thrill, offenders who saw themselves as defending their turf, 1 and finally a small group of offenders whose life’s mission had become to rid the world of groups they considered evil or inferior.
