Barbara Perry

Hate Crimes (eBook, PDF)

[5 volumes]

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive approach to understanding hate crime, its causes, consequences, prevention, and prosecution.

Hate crimes continue to be a pervasive problem in the United States. The murder of Matthew Shepard, the lynching of James Byrd, the murderous rampage of Benjamin Smith, and anti-Muslim violence remind us that incidence of deadly bigotry is not only a recurring chapter in U.S. history, but also a part of our present-day world.

Contrary to common belief, hate mongers who commit crimes are rarely members of the Ku Klux Klan or a skinhead group. In fact, fewer than 5 percent of identifiable offenders are members of organized hate groups. Yet rather than being an individual crime, hate crime represents an assault against all members of stigmatized and marginalized communities. To fully understand the phenomenon of hate crime and reduce its incidence, it is necessary to clearly define the term itself, to examine the victims and the offenders, and to evaluate the consequences and harms of hate crimes.

This comprehensive five-volume set carefully addresses the disturbing variety and incidence of hate crimes, exposing their impacts on the broader realms of crime, punishment, individual communities, and society. The contributing authors and editors pay critical attention to cutting-edge topics such as online hate crimes, hate-based music, anti-Latino hostilities, Islamaphobia, hate crimes in the War on Terror, school-based anti-hate initiatives, and more. The final volume of Hate Crimes provides valuable food for thought on possible legislative, educational, social policy, or community organizational responses to the varied forms of hate crime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 1200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780275995706
• Artikelnr.: 37816421

Autorenporträt

BRIAN LEVIN is a civil rights attorney and professor of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino where he is the Director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism. He has testified before Congress and various state legislatures on hate and extremism. He is also the principal author of various United States Supreme Court amici briefs on hate crimes. Prof. Levin formerly served as Associate Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch/Militia Task Force and as a New York City Police Officer. He is the author or co-author of books and articles on hate crimes and extremism. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School where he was awarded the Block Civil Liberties Award and his B.A., Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania.