Hate crimes
Subtitle: new social movements and the politics of violence
By: Valerie Jenness and Kendal Broad.
Contributors: Broad, Kendal.
Series: Social problems and social issues
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Hate crimes -- United States; Social movements -- United States; Gays -- Violence against -- United States; Women -- Violence against -- United States
Description: This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifest as discrimination. It explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people - Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, on occasion, women, and those with disabilities - have increasingly captured notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence continue to go unnoticed?

It also contributes to the discourse of criminology by considering how "legal mobilization" has brought about whole new categories of statutory criminal conduct. The authors offer empirically grounded, theoretically informed answers to a fundamental sociological question: How is social change on this order possible?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-[207]) and index.