| 'Hate Crime' and the City Contributor(s): Iganski, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861349408 ISBN-13: 9781861349408 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: The impression often conveyed by the media about hate crime offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting out their extremely bigoted views, target their victims in premeditated violent attacks. Scholarly research on the perpetrators of hate crime has begun to provide a more complex picture, but the preoccupation of researchers with convicted offenders neglects the vast majority of hate crime offenders that do not come into contact with the criminal justice system. This book widens understanding by demonstrating that many offenders are just ordinary people who offend in the context of their everyday lives. Hate Crime and the City is written in a lively and accessible style by a leading author in the field. It takes a victim-centered approach to explore and analyze hate crime as a social problem. It adds a new dimension to the debate about criminalizing hate by scrutinizing the balance struck by hate crime laws between the rights of offenders and the rights of victi |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.15 |
| LCCN: 2008278071 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The impression often conveyed by the media about hate crime offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting out their extremely bigoted views, target their victims in premeditated violent attacks. Scholarly research on the perpetrators of hate crime has begun to provide a more nuanced picture. But the preoccupation of researchers with convicted offenders neglects the vast majority of hate crime offenders that do not come into contact with the criminal justice system. This book, from a leading author in the field, widens understanding of hate crime by demonstrating that many offenders are ordinary people who offend in the context of their everyday lives. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book takes a victim-centred approach to explore and analyse hate crime as a social problem, providing an empirically informed and scholarly perspective. Aimed at academics and students of criminology, sociology and socio-legal studies, the book draws out the connections between the individual agency of offenders and the background structural context for their actions. It adds a new dimension to the debate about criminalising hate in light of concerns about the rise of punitive and expressive justice, scrutinizing the balance struck by hate crime laws between the rights of offenders and the rights of victims. |