James B. Jacobs, Director of New York University's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, is Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law. Kimberly Potter, formerly a Senior Research Fellow at NYU's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, is now in private law practice in Bronxville, NY.
"At last, a book that thinks clearly and carefully about laws that
have been too close to motherhood and apple pie to get the scrutiny
they need. Hate Crimes shines with the authors' passion for
justice, and its meticulously argued verdict ought to make even the
staunchest supporters of hate-crimes laws think twice. This
will--or should--be a touchstone for future debate."--Jonathan
Rauch, author of Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free
Thought
"Activists, pundits, and legislators who champion 'hate crime' laws
will be hard-put to answer this stunning, caring book. Jacobs and
Potter show how such laws may advance their sponsors' political
status and moral self-importance yet diminish tolerance and
justice. This definitive analysis will change the debate--and, let
us hope, a sorry miscarriage of the law."--Jim Sleeper, author of
Liberal Racism and The Closest of Strangers
"This book brings careful scrutiny and sociological wisdom to a
legal innovation that desperately needs it. The debate over hate
crimes will never be the same."--Peter Schuck, Yale Law School
"Jacobs and Potter rigorously and provocatively suggest that
criminalizing prejudice, motivated by symbolic politics and moral
outrage, may not be sensible criminal justice policy and, indeed,
may worsen problems criminalization seeks to remedy. Hate Crimes:
Criminal Law and Identity Politics is challenging and rewarding
reading."--Stephen J. Morse, University of Pennsylvania Law School
and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"This slim, well-written volume does the legal heavy lifting of
many books five times its size...an essential guide to the origin,
politics, and enforcement of hate crime laws."--The New York Times
Book Review
"adopt a skeptical, if not critical, stance maintaining that legal
definitions of hate crimes are riddled with ambiguity and
subjectivity"--The Literature of Criminal Justice, 1998-2001
"At last, a book that thinks clearly and carefully about laws that
have been too close to motherhood and apple pie to get the scrutiny
they need. Hate Crimes shines with the authors' passion for
justice, and its meticulously argued verdict ought to make even the
staunchest supporters of hate-crimes laws think twice. This
will--or should--be a touchstone for future debate."--Jonathan
Rauch, author of Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free
Thought
"Activists, pundits, and legislators who champion 'hate crime' laws
will be hard-put to answer this stunning, caring book. Jacobs and
Potter show how such laws may advance their sponsors' political
status and moral self-importance yet diminish tolerance and
justice. This definitive analysis will change the debate--and, let
us hope, a sorry miscarriage of the law."--Jim Sleeper, author of
Liberal Racism and The Closest of Strangers
"This book brings careful scrutiny and sociological wisdom to a
legal innovation that desperately needs it. The debate over hate
crimes will never be the same."--Peter Schuck, Yale Law School
"Jacobs and Potter rigorously and provocatively suggest that
criminalizing prejudice, motivated by symbolic politics and moral
outrage, may not be sensible criminal justice policy and, indeed,
may worsen problems criminalization seeks to remedy. Hate Crimes:
Criminal Law and Identity Politics is challenging and rewarding
reading."--Stephen J. Morse, University of Pennsylvania Law School
and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"This slim, well-written volume does the legal heavy lifting of
many books five times its size...an essential guide to the origin,
politics, and enforcement of hate crime laws."--The New York Times
Book Review
"Where's the problem with the laws themselves? To that, Hate Crimes
offers a wide-ranging response, and a number of its arguments hit
the target."--Wall Street Journal
"This excellent, well-written volume fills a real gap in the
academic literature. It is comprehensive and willing to dissect the
flawed enterprise of finding nobility in the pursuit of ignoble
crimes...The authors' well-placed agnosticism on the overall
enterprise of hate crimes, based on empirical studies, as well as
the cultural minefields of multiculturalism, gives us, in the end,
a powerful indictment of the new flavor of the day and a faith in
one
overarching principle of a neutral rule of law."--New York Law
Journal
"An important work which draws our attention to a serious
issue....This book could make a vital resource for elected
officials who may want to take a critical look at attempts to
reform hate crime laws."--National Catholic Register
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