The emergence, content, and institutionalization of hate crime law: How a diverse policy community produced a modern legal fact

Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 141-160

  Jenness, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias crime; Civil rights; Lawmaking; Legal reform; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149077517     PISSN: 15503585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112733     Document Type: Review

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