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Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence

NCJ Number
176119
Author(s)
V Jenness; K Broad
Date Published
1997
Length
226 pages
Annotation
This book examines the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifest as discrimination.
Abstract
The book explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people (Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, sometimes, women and persons with disabilities) capture notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence against others go unnoticed. The book discusses many aspects of hate-motivated violence, including: (1) social problems and victimization; (2) the politics of violence and attendant legal transformations; (3) the extension of victim status to multiple constituencies; (4) coalition-building around intolerance; (5) crisis intervention and victim assistance; (6) street patrols; (7) contemporary antiviolence against women campaigns; (8) innovation and diffusion of the Violence Against Women Act; (9) hate crime as a social problem; and (10) the discovery of victims and the criminalization of injuries. Notes, figures, tables, appendixes, references, statutes cited, index