Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld, Diana R. Grant

Crimes of Hate

Selected Readings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crimes of Hate: Selected Readings is the first comprehensive reader to offer an up-to-date, multidisciplinary examination of hate crimes. Editors Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld and Diana R. Grant include articles from a variety of disciplines, including criminal justice, criminology, sociology, psychology, and political science. With introductions, discussion questions, and resource lists, this unique anthology combines the most current research on hate crimes with accessible articles from scholarly and legal journals in a single, easily understood format. Developed as a companion to Gerstenfeld's Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies, this innovative reader will provoke thought and discussion in undergraduate and graduate students in criminology, criminal justice, and sociology courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780761929420
• ISBN-10: 0761929428
• Artikelnr.: 21893421

Autorenporträt

Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice, at California State University, Stanislaus. She received her MA and Ph.D. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her JD from University of Nebraska College of Law. She is gaining a national reputation in hate crimes research and has presented at national conventions and published chapters/papers on hate crimes and in a variety of books, encyclopedias and journals.
Diana R. Grant is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Sonoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on the social psychology of legal processes and legal decision making.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Connecting the Past to the Future: Hate Crime in America - C. Petrosino
SECTION TWO: HATE CRIME LAWS
2. The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States - R.
Grattet and V. Jenness
3. Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-bias-Motivated
Assaults - J. McDevitt, J. Balboni, L. Garcia, and J. Gu
4. Retaliation, Fear, or Rage: An Investigation of African American and
White Reactions to Racist Hate Crimes - K. M. Craig
5. R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377
SECTION THREE: POLICY PROBLEMS
6. Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476
7. Good Intentions: The Enforcement of Hate Crime Penalty-Enhancement
Statutes - K. Franklin
8. An Analysis of Factors that Affect Law Enforcement Participation in Hate
Crime Reporting - J. J. Nolan, and Y. Akiyama
SECTION FOUR: HATE CRIME OFFENDERS
9. Hate Crime Offenders: An Expanded Typology - J. McDevitt, J. Levin, and
S. Bennett
10. Bias Crime Motivation: A Study of Hate Crime and Offender
Neutralization Techniques Used Against The Amish - B. D. Byers, B. W.
Crider, and G. K. Biggers
11. Why Can¿t We Just Get Along? Interpersonal Biases and Interracial
Distrust - J. F. Dovidio, S. L. Gaertner, K. Kawakami, and G. Hodson
12. Hate Online: A Content Analysis of Extremist Internet Sites - P. B.
Gerstenfeld, D. R. Grant, and C. Chiang
13. Hate Crime and Everyday Discrimination: Influences of and on The Social
Context - L. Wang
SECTION FIVE: ORGANIZED HATE GROUPS
14. An Ethnographer Looks at Neo-Nazi and Klan Groups: The Racist Mind
Revisited - R. S. Ezekiel
15. History as a Weapon: How Extremists Deny the Holocaust in North America
- B. Levin
16. White Boys to Terrorist Men: Target Recruitment of Nazi Skinheads - R.
Blazak
SECTION SIX: HATE CRIME VICTIMS
17. Hate Crimes Against African Americans: The Extent of the Problem - S.
Torres
18. Hate Crime Victimization Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults:
Prevalence, Psychological Correlates, and Methodological Issues - G. M.
Herek, J. R. Gillis, J. C. Cogan, and E. K. Glunt
19. Hate Violence as Border Patrol: An Asian American Theory of Hate
Violence - T. Chen
20. Examining The Boundaries Of Hate Crime Law: Disabilities and the
"Dilemma of Difference" - R. Grattet and V. Jenness
SECTION SEVEN: FIGHTING CRIME
21. Hate Crime and Anti-Racism Campaigning: Testing the Approach of
Portraying Stereotypical Information-Processing - F. W. Winkel
22. Victim-Offender Mediation: The Road to Repairing Hate Crime Injustice -
A. H. Shenk
23. Stop The Hate: Massachusetts Task Force Creates Student Civil Rights
Project to Combat Problem - J. Mahoney
SECTION EIGHT: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
24. Racism, Ethnicity and Hate Crime - R. White and S. Perrone
25. Aggressive Youth Cultures and Hate Crime: Skinheads and Xenophobic
Youth in Germany - M. W. Watts
26. Legislating Against Hate: Outlawing Racism and Anti-Semitism in Britain
- P. Iganksi
27. The Persecution of Gypsies in Europe - M. Brearley