Author : Ely Aaronson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316147967
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Book Synopsis From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime by : Ely Aaronson
Download or read book From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime written by Ely Aaronson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the political forces underpinning the enactment of new laws regarding racial violence in different periods and of the social and institutional problems that hinder the effective enforcement of these laws. A thought-provoking analysis of how criminal law reflects and constructs social norms, this book offers a new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing the limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.