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Given the importance of hate-crime legislation, the extension of hate-crime protection to include another vulnerable group is a positive step forward. Attacks on individuals explicitly based on their sexual orientation or gender identity have been well documented for some time now but were not legally recognized as a special class of crimes. It is only fair for the government to finally afford gays and lesbians the same legal protections that safeguard members of other frequently targeted groups...
Anthony A. Braga, a Sociology lecturer, was one of 12 individuals honored last month by the U.S. Attorney General for his work to combat Boston gang crime...
Braga wrote in an e-mailed statement that his motivation to study violent crime stemmed from past personal experience...
...have been the victim of violent crime and understand what it is like to be afraid to walk around public spaces,” he wrote. “Over the years, I have also known many young men and women who have been lost to gun violence in Boston’s neighborhoods...
...holiday really lends itself to having fun with kids,” said Amanda F. Guardado ’10, one of the heads of the Mission Hill After School program. “It would be a crime not to do anything...