Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook

Content: 1. Background and history --
2. Problems, controversies, and solutions --
3. Perspectives --
4. Profiles --
5. Data and documents --
6. Resources for further research --
7. Chronology. 1. Background and history. Introduction 
 History of hate crimes legislation: Civil Rights Act of 1968 
 Interference with the exercise of religious beliefs and destruction of religious property 
 Federal Explosives Statute 
 Hate Crimes Statistics Act 
 Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act 
 Violence against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) 
 Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996 
 U.S. Armed Forces and Hate Crime Prevention 
 Campus Hate Crimes Right to Know Act of 1997 
 Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act 
 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act 
 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 
 Executive Branch 
 U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Apprendi v. New Jersey 
 Barclay v. Florida 
 R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul 
 Wisconsin v. Mitchell 
 Hate crimes legislation at  the state level 
 Conclusion 
 References --
2. Problems, controversies, and solutions. Criticism and defense of hate crime laws 
 Methodology 
 Hate crime hoaxes 
 Bias crimes and violence before hate crime laws 
 Hate crimes against selected groups: a recent overview: African Americans 
 Asian Americans 
 Violence against Sikhs 
 American with disabilities 
 Jewish Americans 
 Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people (LGBT) 
 Arab and Muslim Americans 
 Native Americans 
 Conclusion 
 References --
3. Perspectives. Punish crime, not thought crime: Jeff Jacoby 
 The law vs. violent bigotry: the case for strong hate crime laws in the United States: Michael Lieberman 
 Punishing bias-motivated violence: the policy frame for hate-crime laws 
 The Constitutional frame for hate-crime laws: First Amendment protections 
 Expanding federal hate-crime protection: the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) 
 Contemporary anti-Semitism in American higher education: Kenneth L. Marcus 
 Anti-Hispanic immigrant hate crimes: Michele Stacey, Kristin Carbone-Lopez, and Richard Rosenfeld 
 Hate crimes against Sikh Americans: Simran Jeet Singh 
 Hate crimes and the LGBT community: Michael Bronski 
 Hate crime hoaxes on college and university campuses: Ashley Thorne 
 References --
4. Profiles. People 
 Organizations --
5. Data and documents. Hate crime overview 
 Investigation of hate crimes model policy 
 Hate on the internet 
 Hate violence in 2013 
 Vulnerable to hate: a survey of hate crimes committed against homeless people in 2013 
 Kennedy introduces the Hate Crimes Amendment 
 Obama on the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act 
 Federal hate crimes laws --
6. Resources for further research. Books 
 Articles 
 Reports: U.S. government documents and reports 
 Organization reports 
 Nonprint resources, Antibias videos --
7. Chronology.