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anti-discrimination movement research
Anti-Violence Project
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Battered Women
bias-motivated violence
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civil rights policy analysis
Collective Action Frames
Contemporary Women's Movement
Contemporary Women’s Movement
cultural diffusion processes
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Hate Crimes
Hate Motivated Violence
HCSA
institutional change theory
intergroup violence
Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
Lesbian Community Center
Lesbian Movement
Lesbian Task Force
Lesbian Violence
minority group discrimination
Modern Civil Rights Movement
National Level Organizations
new social movements
North Carolina Coalition
Organizational Field
social constructionism
Social Movement Survival
State Coalitions
State Domestic Violence Coalitions
Statewide Coalitions
Substance Abuse Social Workers
Title Iii
United States
Victim Assistance Programs
women crimes
Women's Legal Defense
Women’s Legal Defense
York City Gay
Product details
- ISBN 9780202306025
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have "hate crimes" only recently become recognized as a serious social problem, especially in the United States? This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifested as discrimination. It explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people - Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, on occasion, women and those with disabilities - have increasingly captured notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence continue to go unnoticed.The authors offer empirically grounded, theoretically informed answers to the question: How is social change on this order possible? Their analysis of the dynamics draws upon three established traditions: the social constructionist approach; new social movements theory; and the new institutionalist approach to understanding change as a process of innovation and diffusion of cultural forms. In this case, new social movements have converged of late to sustain public discussions that put into question issues of "rights" and "harm" as they relate to a variety of minority constituencies.The authors couple their general discussion with close attention to many particular anti-violence projects. They thereby develop a compelling theoretical argument about the social processes through which new social problems emerge, social policy is developed and diffused, and new cultural forms are institutionalized.
