In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes - Softcover

Perry, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415927730 ISBN 13: 9780415927734

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

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From the Back Cover:

Matthew Shephard, Billy Jack Gaither, Columbine, Jonesboro. This laundry list of hate is a frightening reminder that such crimes are a sad fact of life in the world today. In the Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the United States hold. Barbara Perry provides a historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

About the Author:

Barbara Perry is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She is the co-editor of Investigating Difference: Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415927730
• ISBN 13: 9780415927734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288