In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes / Edition 1

by Barbara Perry

Overview

Hate Crimes. The mere phrase sends shivers down the spine of every individual. Matthew Shephard, Billy Jack Gaither, Columbine, Jonesboro. This laundry list of hate is the frightening reminder that such crimes are a sad fact of life in the world today. In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes and offers and expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the US hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and also examines the misrepresented ethnovoilence inter-ethnic violence including the Asian and African-American community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415927733
Publication date:	03/15/2001
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

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 and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice (1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Defining and Measuring Hate Crimes

Chapter 2 - Accounting for Hate Crime: "Doing Difference"

Chapter 3 - Doing Violence/ Doing Gender

Chapter 4 - Doing Violence/ Doing Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 5 - Beyond Black and White: Interethnic Minority Violence

Chapter 6 - Organized Hatred

Chapter 7 - Permission to Hate: The Political Context of Hate Crimes

Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Resolutions

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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