Hate Crimes: Causes Controls and Controversies

About this book

The Fourth Edition of Hate Crimes: Causes Controls and Controversies takes a multidisciplinary approach that allows students to explore a broad scope of hate crimes. Drawing on recent developments topics and current research this bookexamines the issues that foster hate crimes while demonstrating how these criminal acts impact individuals as well as communities. Students are introduced to the issue through first-person vignettesoffering a more personalized account of both victims and perpetrators of hate crimes. Packed with the latest court cases research and statistics from a variety of scholarly sources the Fourth Edition is one of the most comprehensive and accessible textbooks in the field.