Author: Regna Darnell
Publisher: Linguistic Research
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Paul-André Linteau
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550282962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

Author: James B. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286318
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter adopt a skeptical if not critical stance, maintaining that legal definitions of hate crime are riddled with ambiguity and subjectivity. No matter how hate crime is defined, and despite an apparent media consensus to the contrary, the authors find no evidence to support the claim that the United States is experiencing a hate crime epidemic--instead, they cast doubt on whether the number of hate crimes is even increasing. The authors further assert that, while the federal effort to establish a reliable hate crime accounting system has failed, data collected for this purpose have led to widespread misinterpretation of the state of intergroup relations in this country. The book contends that hate crime as a socio-legal category represents the elaboration of an identity politics now manifesting itself in many areas of the law. But the attempt to apply the anti-discrimination paradigm to criminal law generates problems and anomalies. For one thing, members of minority groups are frequently hate crime perpetrators. Moreover, the underlying conduct prohibited by hate crime law is already subject to criminal punishment. Jacobs and Potter question whether hate crimes are worse or more serious than similar crimes attributable to other anti-social motivations. They also argue that the effort to single out hate crime for greater punishment is, in effect, an effort to punish some offenders more seriously simply because of their beliefs, opinions, or values, thus implicating the First Amendment. Advancing a provocative argument in clear and persuasive terms, Jacobs and Potter show how the recriminalization of hate crime has little (if any) value with respect to law enforcement or criminal justice. Indeed, enforcement of such laws may exacerbate intergroup tensions rather than eradicate prejudice.

Author: Emmanuel N. Metallic
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763780153
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Accompanying CD-ROM includes searchable full text.

Author: Alphonse Desjardins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Richard Hakluyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: Rhoda Schnur
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1134

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Author: Michel Marc Bouchard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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A revival of a romantic drama, Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien.

Author: Christeen Chidley-Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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