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James B. Jacobs

Hate Crimes

Criminal Law and Identity Politics

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In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of hate crime laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter adopt a skeptical if not critical stance, maintaining that legal definitions of hate crime are riddled with ambiguity and subjectivity. No matter how hate crime is defined, and despite an apparent media consens… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Potter, Kimberly
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-803222-9
  • EAN: 9780198032229
  • Produktnummer: 13884622
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 11'534 KB

Über den Autor


James B. Jacobs, Director of New York University's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, is Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law. Kimberly Potter, formerly a Senior Research Fellow at NYU's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, is now in private law practice in Bronxville, NY.

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