Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

by JamesB.Jacobs (Author), KimberlyPotter (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $247.89

  An in-depth critique of the USA's dominant political and legal response to hate crime in the STUDIES IN CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY series. The fallacious construction of hate crime epidemics by politicians and the media is considered, and it is argued that the laws created in response to such prejudicial views can be regarded as symbolic politics.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $26.66

  In the early-1980s, the US Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of hate crime laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing punishments for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective.