"Readable and interesting...a fine work that offers fresh insights
into how the police enforce hate crime laws."
--"Law and Politics Book Review"
"This useful and timely book deals with the ethnographic basis
of hate crime."
-- "Choice"
"A very well written analysis of the process of enforcing hate
crimes. Policing Hatred illuminates basic matters of policing in a
democratic society-balancing victimsa rights versus the rights of
suspects, the role of public ignorance and political pressure on
police work, and the quite striking decency of these investigators.
. . . Will be a amust reada for all social scientists interested in
hate crime as well as scholars in criminal justice, law, sociology,
and political science in the area of police studies."
--Peter K. Manning, Brooks Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice,
College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law
enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nationas
attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes
such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of
Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to the thousands of
other individuals who each year are attacked because of their race,
religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes
challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims:
most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims
are not.
Policing Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate
crime law works in practice, from the perspective of those
enforcing it. It examines the ways in which the police handle bias
crimes, and the social impact of thoseefforts. Bell exposes the
power that law enforcement personnel have to influence the social
environment by showing how they determine whether an incident will
be charged as a bias crime.
Drawing on her unprecedented access to a police hate crime unit,
Bellas work brings to life the stories of female, Black, Latino,
and Asian American detectives, in addition to those of their white
male counterparts. Policing Hatred also explores the impact of
victimas identity on each officers handling of bias crimes and
addresses how the police treat defendantsa First Amendment rights.
Bellas vivid evidence from the field argues persuasively for the
need to have the police diligently address even low-level offenses,
such as vandalism, given their devastating cumulative effects on
society.
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