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Hate crimes, violence directed against religious, racial, and ethnic groups, also finds women and homosexuals as victims. Each of these has resulted in social movement groups organized to fight such violence. The authors identified 32 gay and lesbian organizations and 36 feminist groups that have responded to hate crimes. Data collected from these organizations consists of newsletters, reports, articles in newspapers, pamphlets, conference agendas, and the like. Treating this material as 68 case studies, the authors then compare the organizations with respect to their histories of reacting to violence and describe an evolutionary process of movement formation, agenda development, and action... Graduate, faculty. --D. Harper, Choice [P]rovide[s] the reader with a better understanding of the social constructions of hate crimes... Its authors describe the process by which affected groups have defined hate crimes as a social problem worthy of attention, and they place the social construction of hate crimes within an appropriate historical and sociological context. Through their extensive study of grassroots antiviolence projects emerging from the civil rights, women's, and lesbian and gay movements, they document the process by which violence against certain groups becomes visible, gets framed as a problem, and becomes transformed into condemnable criminal conduct. --Jeanine C. Cogan and Camille Preston, Signs Jenness and Broad relied upon the constructionist framework to analyze the ways in which hate crimes and the victims of bias incidents are recognized, identified, and labeled through the formation and continued development of social movements, collective action frames and claim-making activities... A number of illuminating points make this monograph an important contribution to the study of hate crimes, organizations, and social movements... This monograph is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, scholars

<p> Hate crimes, violence directed against religious, racial, and ethnic groups, also finds women and homosexuals as victims. Each of these has resulted in social movement groups organized to fight such violence. The authors identified 32 gay and lesbian organizations and 36 feminist groups that have responded to hate crimes. Data collected from these organizations consists of newsletters, reports, articles in newspapers, pamphlets, conference agendas, and the like. Treating this material as 68 case studies, the authors then compare the organizations with respect to their histories of reacting to violence and describe an evolutionary process of movement formation, agenda development, and action... Graduate, faculty. <p> --D. Harper, Choice <p> This book provides a helpful account of how the social groups in the US have responded to the social scourge of hate crime. It offers a clear and valuable expla-nation of this complex problem. <p> --Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

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Valerie Jenness is chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice (with Ryken Grattet, 2001) and Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective (1993).

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