Hate crimes : criminal law & identity politics / James B. Jacobs, Kimberly Potter.

In the early-1980s, the US Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing punishments for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal persp...

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Main Author: Jacobs, James B.
Other Authors: Potter, Kimberly, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001, ©1998.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
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