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| NCJ Number:
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NCJ 180593
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| Title:
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Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes and Solutions
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| Editor(s):
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Robert M. Baird ; Stuart E. Rosenbaum
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| Sale:
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Prometheus Books
59 John Glenn Drive
Amherst, NY 14228-2197
United States |
| Publication Date:
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1999 |
| Pages:
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290 |
| Type:
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Overview texts |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Publication No.:
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ISBN 1-57392-748-1 |
| Annotation:
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With essays that focus on timely issues such as gay bashing,
school shootings, crimes against religious groups, and the spread
of hate through the Internet, this book addresses definitions, origins, and explanations of intolerance some possible solutions for dealing with this
phenomenon. |
| Abstract:
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The book opens with John Dewey's 1939 essay entitled, "Creative
Democracy: The Task before Us." This essay provides an insightful
vision of the social and moral dimensions of the ideal of
democracy embedded in American cultural ideology, an ideology
that is undermined by hatred, bigotry, and prejudice. The essays
in Part Two are recent accounts of disturbing occurrences of hate
and bigotry in contemporary American society, including not only
responses to the murders of James Byrd, Matthew Shepard, and
Barnett Slepian, but also a response to the recent tragedy of
Columbine High School, where two students apparently filled with
hate and fear took the lives of 12 of their classmates and one
teacher before turning their guns on themselves. The essays of
Part Three focus on issues of hate-crime legislation. Part Four
explores the intellectual core of the issue of hatred through
analyses of the nature of hate, bigotry, and prejudice. The
essays in Part Five provide current explanations for the
persistence of prejudice and bigotry, and the essays of Part Six
explore the irrationality and immorality of some phenomena of
bigotry and prejudice. The essays of Part Seven are suggestions
about how bigotry and prejudice might be overcome, as well as how
social problems that arise from bigotry and prejudice might be
addressed. An 18-item select bibliography |
| Main Term(s):
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Criminology |
| Index Term(s):
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Discrimination ; Violent crimes ; Crime specific countermeasures ; Racial discrimination ; Violence causes ; Discrimination against homosexuals ; Hate crimes ; Violence prevention |
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