In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes

by Barbara Perry

Overview

In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135957827
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/03/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	697 KB

About the Author

Barbara Perry is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She is the co-editor of Investigating Difference: Human andCultural Relations in Criminal Justice (1999).

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Violence of Hatred Chapter 1 - Defining and Measuring Hate Crime Chapter 2 - Accounting for Hate Crime: Doing Difference Chapter 3 - Defending the Color Line: Race, Difference, and Hate Crime Chapter 4 - Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately: Violence against Women, Gay Men, and Lesbians Chapter 5 - Beyond Black and White: Minority-on Minority Violence Chapter 6 - Hate Groups and Ideologies of Power Chapter 7 - Permission to Hate: Ethnoviolence and the State Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Doing Difference Differently Appedices Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"Informative." — Choice
"[A] must read for scholars and policymakers." — Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine
"In the Name of Hate is an ambitious undertaking which represents a painful reality in the wake of the national tragedy of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. While published prior to that date, this work adds a rather unique dimension to the scholarship on power and institutionalized discrimination and has global as well as domestic implications." — Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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