Policing hatred : law enforcement, civil rights, and hate crime

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Label

Policing hatred : law enforcement, civil rights, and hate crime

Title remainder

law enforcement, civil rights, and hate crime

Statement of responsibility

Jeannine Bell

Creator

• Bell, Jeannine, 1969-

Subject

• Bekämpfung
• Derechos civiles -- Estados Unidos
• Crímenes atroces -- Estados Unidos
• Hate crime
• Criminal law -- United States -- Decision making
• Civil rights -- United States
• Policía -- Estados Unidos -- Toma de decisiones
• Hate crimes -- United States
• USA
• Derecho Penal -- Estados Unidos -- Toma de decisiones
• Kriminalität
• Bürgerrecht
• Police -- United States -- Decision making

Language

eng

Summary

"Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation's attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to the thousands of other individuals who each year are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not." "Policing Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate crime law works in practice, from the perspective of those enforcing it. It examines the ways in which the police handle bias crimes, and the social impact of those efforts. Bell exposes the power that law enforcement personnel have to influence the social environment by showing how they determine whether an incident will be charged as a bias crime."--Jacket

Member of

• Critical America

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

345.73/025

Index

index present

LC call number

KF9345

LC item number

.B45 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Critical America