دانلود کتاب Making Hate A Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement

"In this fascinating and important book, Valerie Jenness and Ryken Grattet show how social movement organizations, interest groups, and policy experts came to think that crimes motivated by hatred of social groups should be considered a special type of crime; how they managed to win media attention for this newly defined type of crime; how they convinced Congress and many state legislatures to accept their view and to enact hate crime laws; how interpretations of hate crime laws by the courts and the police affect enforcement; and the impact hate crime laws are likely to have on American society. Make Hate a Crime is a well-written analysis of an important chapter in American politics, and will be of great interest to a wide audience concerned about hate crimes."--Paul Burstein, professor of sociology, University of Washington. -- "In their insightful new work, Jenness and Grattet effectively analyze the development of hate crime laws. How are we to explain the instiutionalization of hate crime legislation? Was it a result of a rising tide of hate violence or simply the influence of interest group politics? This book presents a convincing case that it was neither. There are important sociological lessons to be learned from the pages of Making Hate a Crime."--Jack Levin, Professor of Sociology and Criminology and director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University.  Read more...