Crimes of Hate: Selected Readings by Phyllis B. (Behrens) Gerstenfeld (Editor), Diana R. Grant (Editor), Diana R. Grant (Editor)
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- Sales Rank: 274,513
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- ISBN-13: 9780761929437
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: September 2003
- Publisher: SAGE Publications
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2003
- Publisher: SAGE Publications
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 408pp
- Sales Rank: 274,513
- ISBN-13: 9780761929437
- ISBN: 0761929436
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
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This multidisciplinary reader offers a review of current research and selected articles from recent scholarly and legal journals relating to hate crimes. Criminal justice professors Gerstenfeld (California State U., Stanislaus) and Grant (Sonoma State U.) introduce 27 contributions addressing the definition of hate crime, social context of such crimes in the US, laws, enforcement, policy implications, the nature of lone and organized offenders (including police and border patrols), victims, prevention, and international perspectives. The book includes data and discussion questions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice, at California State University, Stanislaus. She received her MA and Ph.D. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her JD from University of Nebraska College of Law. She is gaining a national reputation in hate crimes research and has presented at national conventions and published chapters/papers on hate crimes and in a variety of books, encyclopedias and journals.
Diana R. Grant is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Sonoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on the social psychology of legal processes and legal decision making.
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