SOCIOL 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Southern Poverty Law Center, The Daily Stormer, Ms-13
29 Mar 2017
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Overview: hate groups have a belief system or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their ascribed characteristics, southern poverty law center. Identified 912 active hate groups in the united states in 2016. This activity must be group-based, and not the work of an individual, to be included on list. In the last 15 years, hate groups have steadily increased over time, including an over 35% increase from 2001 to 2016. Examined hate group publication and websites, citizen and law enforcement reports, field sources and news media reports. Hate group behaviors and activities can include various criminal acts (of wide ranging severity), marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. Taking a broader view, we see that hate groups are not evenly distributed across the united states (in terms of location) He finds that the most common reasons individuals join hate groups is family disruption. More specifically, they examine the racist skinhead gang known as.
