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Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims is a collection of perspectives by authors from a variety of academic disciplines such as legal studies, communication studies, political science, and criminology on the subject of Anti-Muslim hate crimes. Stereotypes of middle-eastern people had been part of the American landscape for decades prior to 9/11, and this act of terrorism intensified American misconceptions of the already marginalized community and led to criminal victimization of persons believed to be members of the Muslim community. This volume seeks to bring various aspects of Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors, from microaggressions that reflect bigotry to bias motivated criminal acts, commonly referred to as hate crimes, to a broad audience. This volume could also serve as a supplemental text for educators who teach in areas such as ethnoviolence, hate crimes and terrorism, criminology, sociology, immigration studies, political science, world religions, especially middle eastern studies, and other related courses.

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Carolyn Turpin Petrosino is Professor Emerita and is currently Adjunct faculty at Bridgewater State University and the founding chair of the Criminal Justice Department. She has 18 years of experience as a correctional social worker, correctional unit supervisor, and parole hearing officer within the New Jersey correctional and parole systems. Dr. Petrosino' s research focus is on hate crime phenomena. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her recent book is Understanding Hate Crime: Acts, Motives, Offenders, Victims, and Justice.

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