CRM/LAW C107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racialization, Ethnocentrism, Hate Crime

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C107
• Professor: Henry N.Pontell

Document Summary

Hate crime is a way of doing difference . Nation with deeply embedded understandings of difference. Individual level: appropriate ways to perform or do gender, race/ethnicity, etc. Hate crimes occur when someone does this inappropriately . A general theories of hate crime (mark walters) Using gottfredson & hirschi"s general theory of crime. Socioeconomic strain theory + fear of difference + low self-control. Fear: of both encroaching on identity & eonomic opportunities fuels the climate of prejudice. Is a mechanism to suppress others, & prevent social mobility. And to place blame (scapegoat) for economic problems. Racial structure: influences our actions and how we perceive the actions of people. General characteristics of modern hate crimes: racial/ethnic minority group, less advantaged economically/politically, prevailing values and traditions, perceived as serious threat. Racialization of africans as negative, evil, inferior. 1619, 1865, 1896, 1954, 1964 civil rights act, 2018: present.