Hate Crimes
ISBN: 9780816066292
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Infobase Learning
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;

Whether one believes hate crimes represent acts committed against entire communities, thus justifying penalty enhancement, or that the law should make no distinction between bias crimes and ordinary crimes, Hate Crimes is a useful guide through the various issues related to this complex topic. Striving to be as objective as possible, this volume provides students and general readers with the resources necessary to define, understand, and research one of the most contentious topics in the United States today.


Thomas Streissguth is an author who grew up in the Midwest. He worked in New York in magazines for four years and as a juvenile book editor in Minneapolis for six. He has published about 40 books of non-fiction: biographies, history, geography books, and the like. His title's include: Dracula, Cleopatra, Hoaxers and Hustlers, Jack London, and Vladmir Putin.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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