Hate crimes
Subtitle: understanding and defining hate crime
By: Barbara Perry, general editor.
Contributors: Perry, Barbara, 1962-
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1200
ISBN-13: 9780275995690
Subjects: Offenses against the person; Hate crimes; Violent crimes; Genocide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The long arc of justice : race, violence, and the emergence of hate crime law / Brian Levin; title: Historical lessons : what's past may be prologue / Carolyn Petrosino; title: Hate as cultural justification for violence / Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic; title: The sociology of hate : theoretical approaches / Barbara Perry; title: Posing the "why" question : understanding the perpetration of racially motivated violence and harassment / David Gadd and Bill Dixon; title: From the Klan to skinheads : a critical history of American hate groups / Mark S. Hamm; title: White nationalism in America /  Heidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks; title: Toward a working definition of hate groups / Randy Blazak; title: Defining and measuring hate crime : a potpourri of issues / Susie Bennett, James J. Nolan, and Norman Conti; title: Hate crime laws : a critical assessment / Jessica Henry; title: Weighing genocide / Timothy Pytell; title: From birth of a nation to stormfront : a century of communicating hate / Sara-Ellen Amster.