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CONCORD  In 2015, a tattoo artist named Raymond Stevens pleaded guilty to criminal mischief after defacing the homes of refugees in Concord with racist graffiti.   The hateful words scrawled on the siding were literal and clear: You are not welcome here. Under the state s Civil Rights Act, prosecutors applied a hate crime enhancement to Stevens sentence, resulting in a year of imprisonment in a county jail. Hate crimes are often referred to as message crimes those that target and intimidate an entire group as well as the direct victim. In a 2012 study published in the International Review of Victimology, researchers found that people who were aware of hate-based violence against someone in their community experienced similar symptoms to victims of vicarious trauma, reporting feelings of shock, anger, fear and inferiority. 

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