Publication

1999 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing1488226

Classifications

  • DDC345.73/025
  • LCCKF9345 .L39 1999

Description

Punishing Hate examines the nature of bias-motivated violence and provides a foundation for understanding bias crimes and their treatment under the U.S. legal system. In this tightly argued book, Frederick Lawrence poses the question: Should bias crimes be punished more harshly than similar crimes that are not motivated by bias? He answers strongly in the affirmative, as do a great many scholars and citizens, but he is the first to provide a solid theoretical grounding for this intuitive agreement, and a detailed model for a bias crimes statute based on the theory.

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Other Editions

  • Punishing hate: bias crimes under American lawHarvard University Press1999-01-01

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