Hate crimes revisited : America's war against those who are different / / Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt
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Levin Jack <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Hate crimes revisited : America's war against those who are different / / Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colorado : , : Westview, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.15 |
| 364.150973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Hate crimes - United States |
| Prejudices - United States | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | McDevittJack <1953-> |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: HATE CRIMES RECONSIDERED; 1 REIGN OF TERROR: THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL; 2 NASTY PICTURES IN OUR HEADS: BELIEFS, STEREOTYPES, AND LEARNING TO HATE; 3 HATRED IS HOT: THE MIXED MESSAGES OF POP CULTURE; 4 RESENTMENT: MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE HATE; 5 FOR THE THRILL OF IT: THE STRONG PREYING ON THE WEAK; 6 DEFENDING AGAINST A PERSONAL THREAT: TO HATE IS TO PROTECT; 7 RIDDING THE WORLD OF EVIL: HATE AS A DELUSIONAL MISSION; 8 BROTHERHOOD OF BIGOTRY: ORGANIZED HATE ACROSS THE COUNTRY; 9 HATE GOES TO SCHOOL: STILL ALIVE AND WELL ON CAMPUS |
| 10 MINORITY AGAINST MINORITY: PITCHED BATTLES OF HATE11 HATRED AROUND THE WORLD: KEEPING FOREIGNERS OUT; 12 POLICE RESPONSE: TRAINING,CULTURAL SENSITIVITY, INTERNAL MONITORING, AND TAKING A HARDLINE AGAINST HATE CRIMES; 13 PUBLIC POLICY AND THE LAW: HOW HATE CRIMES ARE PROSECUTED AND INTERPRETED; 14 PREVENTION: STOPPING THE CRIMES AND OFFENDERS IN THEIR TRACKS; 15 COMMUNITY RESPONSE: FIGHTING HATE CRIMES ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AT A TIME; 16 REVISITING HATE CRIMES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Two leading experts on hate crime reassess the threat of violence based on difference--whether in sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship-- to help us better understand and ultimately prevent such acts from occurring in the future |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hate crimes revisited |
| ISBN: | 0-7867-3078-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996212775403316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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