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Hate Crime

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Synonyms

Bias crime; Bias/Hate motivated crime; Ethnoviolence

Overview

This entry aims to lay out some of the key controversies developments in hate crime scholarship and practice in recent years. Specifically, it speaks to the dilemmas of defining and legislating hate and to the harms associated with hate crime. In addition, it enumerates “what’s hot” and “what’s not” in terms of current scholarship, identifying those areas that are well developed and those that have received little attention. It concludes with a discussion of emerging nonpunitive means by which to address hate crime in practice.

Key Issues

Sadly, the phenomenon we have come to call hate crime has a lengthy history in the west. History does indeed repeat itself as similar patterns of motivation, sentiment, and victimization recur over time. Just as immigrants in the 1890s were subject to institutional and public forms of discrimination and violence, so too were those of the 1990s; likewise, former black slaves risked...

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  1. Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe St., North Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Barbara Perry

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Perry, B. (2014). Hate Crime. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_132

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