ABSTRACT

Covering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.

part One|90 pages

Defining and Measuring Hate and Bias Crime

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Connecting the Past to the Future

Hate Crime in America

chapter 2|22 pages

Hate Crime

An Emergent Research Agenda

chapter 4|16 pages

Racial Harassment and the Process of Victimization

Conceptual and Methodological Implications for the Local Crime Survey

chapter 5|14 pages

Improving the Quality and Accuracy of Bias Crime Statistics Nationally

An Assessment of the First Ten Years of Bias Crime Data Collection

part Two|78 pages

Causes And Consequences

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 6|12 pages

Accounting for Hate Crime

Doing Difference

chapter 7|8 pages

Hate Crime Offenders

An Expanded Typology

chapter 8|14 pages

Examining Hate-Motivated Aggression

A Review of the Social Psychological Literature on Hate Crimes as a Distinct form of Aggression

chapter 9|8 pages

Hate Crimes Hurt More

chapter 10|13 pages

Consequences for Victims

A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assaults

part Three|126 pages

Victims

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 15|12 pages

The Mainstreaming of Hate

A Report on Latinos and Harassment, Hate Violence, and Law Enforcement Abuse in the '90s

chapter 19|20 pages

Gender-Bias Hate Crimes

A Review

chapter 20|14 pages

Examining the Boundaries of Hate Crime Law

Disabilities and the “Dilemma of Difference”

part Four|88 pages

Hate Groups

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 21|18 pages

Defenders of the Faith

Hate Groups and Ideologies of Power

chapter 22|18 pages

White Boys to Terrorist Men

Target Recruitment of Nazi Skinheads

chapter 23|14 pages

Becoming a Racist

Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups

chapter 24|12 pages

Constructing Whiteness

The Intersections of Race and Gender in US White Supremacist Discourse

chapter 25|20 pages

Cyberhate

A Legal and Historical Analysis of Extremists' Use of Computer Networks in America

part Five|96 pages

Interventions

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 28|12 pages

Policing Hatred

Police Bias Units and the Construction of Hate Crime

chapter 29|16 pages

Victim-Offender Mediation

The Road to Repairing Hate Crime Injustice

chapter 30|10 pages

Promising Practices Against Hate Crimes

Five State and Local Demonstration Projects