After September 11th, a number of Sikh men were targeted and killed; mistaken as Muslims. In Texas, a black man is dragged to death from the back of a pick-up truck. Children at a Jewish daycare center in California are attacked by an anti-Semitic gunmen. In Montana, the young Matthew Shepard was gaybashed and left to die on a deserted roadside.

These are the hate crimes that fill the headlines of the daily newpapers and are graphically detailed on every newscast. Whether motivated by race, gender, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality, hate crimes happen every day and in every state across the country.

Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader is the first reader to bring together the essential readings on hate and bias crimes by the top-names in the field. This comprehensive anthology examines hate groups from a global perspective; delves into the issue of minority and violence going way beyond the usual black and white; analyzes the current rise in terrorism; and discusses ways of intervention. It also includes useful statistical information on hate crimes, recent hate crime legislation and anti-hate resources.

Covering everything from women in the Klan and extremist exploits on the Internet to Neo-Nazi rock-n-roll subculture and Black church arsons, this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.

PART I Defining and Measuring Hate and Bias Crime

Introduction
Connecting the Past to the Future: Hate Crime in America, Carolyn Petrosino
Hate Crime: An Emergent Research Agenda, Donald Green, Laurence McFalls and Jennifer Smith
Thinking More Clearly About Hate-Motivated Crimes, Richard Berk, Elizabeth Boyd and Karl Hamner
Racial Harassment and the Process of Victimization, Benjamin Bowling
Improving the Quality and Accuracy of Bias Crime Statistics Nationally: An Assessment of the First Ten Years of Bias Crime Data Collection, Jack McDevitt, Jennifer Balboni, Susan Bennett, Joan Weiss, Stan Orchowsky and Lisa Walbolt

PART II Causes and Consequences

Introduction
Accounting for Hate Crime: Doing Difference, Barbara Perry
Hate Crime Offenders: An Expanded Typology, Jack McDevitt, Jack Levin and Susan Bennett
Examining Hate-motivated Aggression: A Review of the Social Psychological Literature on Hate Crimes as a Distinct Form of Aggression, Kellina Craig
Hate Crimes Hurt More, Paul Iganski
Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-motivated Assaults, Jack McDevitt
The Traumatic Effects of Ethnoviolence, Howard J. Ehrlich, Barbara E.K. Larcom and Robert D. Purvis

PART III Victims

Introduction
Black Church Arson in the United States, 1989-1996, Sarah Soule and Nella Van Dyke
Anti-Muslim Retaliatory Violence Following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Barbara Perry
Treaty Rights and Responding to Anti-Indian Activity, Zoltan Grossman
The Mainstreaming of Hate: A Report on Latinos and Harassment, Hate Violence and Law Enforcement Abuse in the '90s, National Council of La Raza
Racial Violence Against Asian Americans, Harvard Law Review
2001 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, Anti-Defamation League
Hate Crime Victimization Among Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults, Gregory Herek and Roy Gillis
Gender Bias Hate Crimes, Beverly McPhail
Examining the Boundaries of Hate Crime Law: Disabilities and the "Dilemma of Difference", Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness

PART IV Hate Groups

Introduction
Defenders of the Faith: Hate Groups and Ideologies of Power, Barbara Perry
White Boys to Terrorist Men: Target Recruitment of Nazi Skinheads, Randy Blazak
Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups, Kathleen Blee
Constructing Whiteness: the Intersections of Race and Gender in US White Supremacist Discourse, Abby Ferber
Cyberhate: A Legal and Historical Analysis of Extremists' Use of Computer Networks in America, Brian Levin

PART V Interventions

Introduction
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States, Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness
The Emergence and Implications of American Hate Crime Jurisprudence, James Jacobs
Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units and the Construction of Hate Crimes, Jeanine Bell
Victim-Offender Mediation: The Road to Repairing Hate Crime Injustice, Alyssa Shenk
Promising Practices Against Hate Crimes: Five State and Local Demonstration Projects, Steve Wessler
The Prevention of Anti-Lesbian/Gay Hate Crimes Through Social Change and Empowerment, Jeanine Cogan
Appendix 1: Hate Crime Legislation
Appendix 2: Hate Crime Data
Appendix 3: Anti-Hate Resources