Hate Crimes Revisited
Subtitle: America's War on Those Who Are Different
Publisher: Westview Press; Northeastern University
Published: September 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813339221
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Racism & racial discrimination; Sex discrimination; Violence in society; Politics/International Relations; General; Current Affairs; Sociology; USA; Prejudices; Criminology; International; Hate crimes; United States
First sentence: It was after midnight on June 7, 1998. Bill King, Russell Brewer, and Shawn Berry rode in their gray pickup truck up and down Martin Luther King Drive in Jasper, Texas, drinking beer, hunting for women, and singing along with tunes on the radio.
Description: "Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. No more. [In this book, the authors] reinterpret this scourge of our generation-hatred based on race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, and even citizenship. In the aftermath of the worst act of terrorism in this country's history-the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001-the authors probe the causes and characteristics of such acts of hatred and, most vitally, their consequences for all of us."--