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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 27: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

Aaronson, Ely

 
9781107026896: From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 110702689X ISBN 13: 9781107026896
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the political forces underpinning the enactment of new laws regarding racial violence in different periods and of the social and institutional problems that hinder the effective enforcement of these laws. A thought-provoking analysis of how criminal law reflects and constructs social norms, this book offers a new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing the limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.

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About the Author

Ely Aaronson is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110702689X
ISBN 13 
9781107026896
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
220