Racial Ethnic And Homophobic Violence

Author : Michel Prum,Bénédicte Deschamps,Marie-Claude Barbier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136642036

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Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence by Michel Prum,Bénédicte Deschamps,Marie-Claude Barbier Pdf

With contributions by internationally recognized specialists, this book, a perfect complement to courses in criminology and hate crime, provides a key resource for understanding how racism and homophobia work to produce violence. Hate-motivated violence is now deemed a ‘serious national problem’ in most Western societies. With contributions by British, Australian, American, Canadian, Irish, Italian and French researchers, this book addresses a wide spectrum of types of violence, including, genocide, urban riots, inter-ethnic fighting and forms of hate crime targeting gay and lesbian people. Contributors to this volume also consider the political groups responsible for outbursts of hatred, their modes of operation and the institutional aspects of hate crime. Opening up an interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which certain groups or individuals are transformed into expiatory victims, this compelling book is an essential read for all postgraduate law students and researchers interested in hate crime and society.

Author : PRUM MICHAEL
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184568057X

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Killing in the Name of Otherness by PRUM MICHAEL Pdf

This book is concerned with violence in a number of English speaking countries of three continents : America, Europe and Australia. Contributions focus on the question of racially motivated violence - covering a wide spectrum from the extreme case of genocide to urban riots and inter-ethnic fighting - and finally to symbolic violence, and on forms of hate crime targeting gay and lesbian people. In connection with these types of violence, also addressed here are the political groups responsible for outbursts of hatred, the use of the internet for propagating hatred, and "institutional racism".

Author : Melanie Judge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315436357

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Blackwashing Homophobia by Melanie Judge Pdf

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence. Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing discourses through which violence and its queer targets are normatively understood, exploring the knowledge regimes in which multiple forms of othering are both reproduced and/or resisted. This book draws on primary research on lesbian subjectivity and violence in South Africa examining the intersections of sexual, gender, race and class identities, and the contemporary politics of violence in a postcolonial context: • What are the contending ways of knowing queers and the violence they face? • How are the causes, characters, consequence of, and ‘cures’ for, violence constructed through such knowledges and what are their power effects? The book explores these questions and their implications for how violence, as an instrument of power, might be countered. Blackwashing Homophobia is a timely intervention for theorising the discourse of homophobia-related violence and what it reveals and conceals, enables and hinders, in relation to queer identities and political imaginaries in times of violence. The book’s interdisciplinary approach to the topic will appeal to social and political scientists, philosophers and psychology professionals, as well as to advanced psychology undergraduates and postgraduates alike.

Author : Doug Meyer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813573182

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Violence Against Queer People by Doug Meyer Pdf

Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial minorities, the poor, and women. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender. Drawing on interviews with forty-seven victims of violence, Meyer shows that LGBT people encounter significantly different forms of violence—and perceive that violence quite differently—based on their race, class, and gender. His research highlights the extent to which other forms of discrimination—including racism and sexism—shape LGBT people’s experience of abuse. He reports, for instance, that lesbian and transgender women often described violent incidents in which a sexual or a misogynistic component was introduced, and that LGBT people of color sometimes weren’t sure if anti-queer violence was based solely on their sexuality or whether racism or sexism had also played a role. Meyer observes that given the many differences in how anti-queer violence is experienced, the present media focus on white, middle-class victims greatly oversimplifies and distorts the nature of anti-queer violence. In fact, attempts to reduce anti-queer violence that ignore race, class, and gender run the risk of helping only the most privileged gay subjects. Many feel that the struggle for gay rights has largely been accomplished and the tide of history has swung in favor of LGBT equality. Violence against Queer People, on the contrary, argues that the lives of many LGBT people—particularly the most vulnerable—have improved very little, if at all, over the past thirty years.

Author : Gail Mason
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415189551

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The Spectacle of Violence by Gail Mason Pdf

The Spectacle of Violence explores the contexts and implications of homophobia-related violence and hostility, asking questions about where violence comes from and the effects it has.

Author : Gary David Comstock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231073313

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Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men by Gary David Comstock Pdf

Violence against lesbians and gay men is becoming recognized as a social problem and is taking its place among such societal concerns as violence against women, children, and ethnic and racial groups. This book focuses on the current situation of lesbian/gay people and is concerned with making a contribution toward overcoming violence directed against them.

Author : Sandra E. Weissinger,Dwayne A. Mack,Elwood Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315408699

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Violence Against Black Bodies by Sandra E. Weissinger,Dwayne A. Mack,Elwood Watson Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I There is No Time for Despair: (Re)Working the Racial Order -- 1 The Fires of Racial Discontent Are Still Burning! Intensely! -- 2 Rage and Activism: The Promise of Black Lives Matter -- 3 Understanding Racialized Homophobic and Transphobic Violence -- Part II The Space of Trauma: Violence to the Psyche, Body, and Home -- 4 When No Place Is Safe: Violence Against Black Youth -- 5 Death by Residential Segregation and the Post-Racial Myth -- 6 Vigilant Vagrants: The Turbulent Tale of the Queer Black Man -- Part III Media Fallacies: Stereotypes and Other Obliterations of Black Realities -- 7 The Revelatory Racial Politics of The Sopranos: Black and Brown Bodies and Storylines as Props and Backdrop in the Normalization of Whiteness -- 8 From Mammy to black-ish: The Perceived Evolution of the Black American Typecast -- 9 For the World to See: Bestiality Against Black Bodies and the Deleterious Effects of Predisposed Media Disclosure -- 10 It's "Young Black Kids Doing It": Biased Media Portrayals of the Deviant in Britain? -- Part IV Stone Walls: The Invisible Hand of Institutional Racism -- 11 "The Multicultural Dilemma": Ignoring Racism in the Works of James Howard Kunstler -- 12 The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Institutionalized Racial Violence -- 13 Blood at the Root: The False Equivalency of External and Internal Violence Against Blacks in Obama's America -- 14 Trigger-Happy Policing: Racialized Violence Against Black Bodies in Academic Spaces -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.

Author : Neil Chakraborti,Jon Garland
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446202340

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Hate Crime by Neil Chakraborti,Jon Garland Pdf

'Hate Crime is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners seeking to understand this complex and contested subject. It is thoroughly researched and theoretically informed, but will be accessible to newcomers to the field and to people delivering practical responses to offending and victimisation. Clearly written and with case-study illustrations, Chakroborti and Garland bring this challenging subject to the reader in a vivid and readable form.' - Ben Bowling, Professor of Criminology, King’s College, London. This engaging and thought-provoking text provides an accessible introduction to the subject of hate crime. In a world where issues of hatred and prejudice are creating complex challenges for society and for governments, this book provides an articulate and insightful overview of how such issues relate to crime and criminal justice. It offers comprehensive coverage, including topics such as: " racist hate crime " religiously motivated hate crime " homophobic crime " gender and violence " disablist hate crime The book considers the challenges involved in policing hate crime, as well as exploring the role of the media. Legislative developments are discussed throughout. Chapter summaries, case studies, a glossary and advice on further reading all help to equip the reader with a clear understanding of this nuanced and controversial subject. Hate Crime is essential reading for students and academics in criminology and criminal justice.

Author : Gail Mason,Stephen Tomsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1876067047

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Homophobic Violence by Gail Mason,Stephen Tomsen Pdf

This book originates from the Australian Institute of Criminology. The common thread running through it is not just the problem of violence, but the concept of homophobia - the disapproval of homosexual desire and an animosity to homosexual identities, politics and lifestyles.There are chapters on the differential impact of harassment and violence on young people, on gay men and on lesbians; on police responses to this violence in South Australia and New South Wales; on the constructed deviant status of homosexual homicide victims; on criminology's description of lesbians and gay men as deviants marked out from heterosexuals; on HIV-related violence and its impact on victims; and a detailed analysis of the relevant law throughout Australia."Gay, lesbian and transgender communities in Australia continue to be disproportionately and unacceptably the victims of high, perhaps even increasing levels of violence. Moreover that violence is perpetrated against them for no other reason than that of their sexuality. ... We know that gay men are four times more likely to be the victims of assault, and lesbians six times more likely, than other men and women. ... There must be wider acceptance that the level of continuing violence against this group of our fellow Australians constitutes a national disgrace which cannot be tolerated. Homophobic Violence will serve to focus attention upon an issue too long ignored and too often concealed."Chris Puplick, former President, Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales

Author : Paul Iganski,Jack Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317655534

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Hate Crime by Paul Iganski,Jack Levin Pdf

This short, accessible text takes on the global and pervasive phenomenon of hate crimes and hypothesizes potential fixes. Iganski and Levin detail evidence of hate violence in the 21st century, particularly religious hatred, ethnic, racial and xenophobic hatred, violence on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual identity, disablist violence, and violence against women, using the most recently published data from cross-national surveys produced by international organizations. This is an ideal addition to any course on social problems, violence, or hate crimes.

Author : Franklin Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135646172

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Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics by Franklin Ng Pdf

The United States has seen several anti-Asian movements, as evidenced by immigration policies, naturalization laws, state and local statutes, and acts of violence. In recent years, Asian Americans have mobilized against prejudice and discrimination, organizing media groups and panethnic coalitions to achieve greater political effectiveness. These essays address recent issues of interethnic relations and conflict and politics in Asian American communities, ranging from the Japanese American redress movement for unjustified World War II internment, Japan-bashing, the model minority stereotype, resistance to urban renewal, interethnic conflicts with other groups, Asian American politics, Asian American panethnicity, and involvement in ancestral homeland politics.

Author : Iyiola Solanke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134034055

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Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law by Iyiola Solanke Pdf

Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law examines the evolution of anti-racial discrimination law from a socio-legal perspective. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book does not simply look at race and society or race and law but brings these areas together by drawing out the tension in the process, in different countries, by which race becomes a policy issue which is subsequently regulated by law. Moving beyond traditional social movement theory to include the extreme right wing as a social actor, the study identifies the role of extreme right wing confrontation in agenda setting and law-making, a feature often neglected in studies of social action. In so doing, it identifies the influence of both the extreme right and liberalism on anti-racial discrimination law. Focusing primarily on Great Britain and Germany, the book also demonstrates how national politics feeds into EU policy and identifies some of the challenges in creating a high and uniform level of protection against racial discrimination throughout the EU. Using primary archival materials from Germany and the UK, the empirical richness of this book constitutes a valuable contribution to the field of anti-racial discrimination law, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The book will interest specialists and academics in law, sociology and political science as well as non-specialists, who will find this study stimulating and useful to expand their knowledge of anti-racial discrimination law or pursue teaching goals, policy objectives and reform agendas.

Author : Sam Dick,Stonewall Group,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gays
ISBN : 1842062204

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Homophobic Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents by Sam Dick,Stonewall Group,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission Pdf

Author : Douglas Janoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802085709

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Pink Blood by Douglas Janoff Pdf

Since 1990, hundreds of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people have been assaulted or murdered in Canada, but so far there has been little mention of the phenomenon in Canadian criminology textbooks or other publications. This is the first book to analyze homophobic violence on a national scale. It uses social theory, legal analysis, descriptive case studies, and interviews with victims, activists, and police officers from thirty cities to convey the shattering impact this violence has had on queer Canadians and on the communities they inhabit. It critically examines the concept of homophobia, the ‘homosexual panic defence,’ the ignorance and brutality of some Canadian police officers, and hate crime legislation and policies that, despite good intentions, are often powerless to counteract this complex and troubling problem.

Author : Charles McClain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815318510

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Asian Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities, and the Law by Charles McClain Pdf

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.