"In this fascinating and important book, Valerie Jenness and Ryken Grattet show how social movement organizations, interest groups, and policy experts came to think that crimes motivated by hatred of social groups should be considered a special type of crime; how they managed to win media atten...

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1. Verfasser:	Jenness, Valerie 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Russell Sage Foundation 2004
Ausgabe:	1. papercover ed.
Schriftenreihe:	The American Sociological Association's Rose series in sociology
Schlagworte:	Hate crimes Crimes haineux Hate crime USA
Zusammenfassung:	"In this fascinating and important book, Valerie Jenness and Ryken Grattet show how social movement organizations, interest groups, and policy experts came to think that crimes motivated by hatred of social groups should be considered a special type of crime; how they managed to win media attention for this newly defined type of crime; how they convinced Congress and many state legislatures to accept their view and to enact hate crime laws; how interpretations of hate crime laws by the courts and the police affect enforcement; and the impact hate crime laws are likely to have on American society. Make Hate a Crime is a well-written analysis of an important chapter in American politics, and will be of great interest to a wide audience concerned about hate crimes."--Paul Burstein, professor of sociology, University of Washington. -- "In their insightful new work, Jenness and Grattet effectively analyze the development of hate crime laws. How are we to explain the instiutionalization of hate crime legislation? Was it a result of a rising tide of hate violence or simply the influence of interest group politics? This book presents a convincing case that it was neither. There are important sociological lessons to be learned from the pages of Making Hate a Crime."--Jack Levin, Professor of Sociology and Criminology and director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University
Beschreibung:	"Includes new preface by the authors"--Cover Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index About the authors -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index
Beschreibung:	XVI, 218 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm
ISBN:	0871544105 9780871544100 0871544091