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Making Hate A Crime : From Social Movement to Law Enforcement /
As a result, it not only acquired a deeper jurisprudential foundation but its scope of application has been restricted in some ways and broadened in others. Making Hate a Crime reveals how our current understanding of hate crime is a mix of political and legal interpretations at work in the American...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2001]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the hate crime agenda
- The emergence of an anti-hate-crime movement and the construction of an epidemic of violence
- Social movement mobilization, categorization processes, and meaning making in federal hate crime law
- Diffusion processes and the evolution of state hate crime law
- Judicial decision making and the changing meaning of hate crime
- Law enforcement responses: policing and prosecuting hate crime
- Conclusion: empirical findings, theoretical interpretations, and policy implications.