CRM/LAW C127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Group Conflict
22 Mar 2019
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Social scientists from many disciplines have noted that the history of human society is the history of human society is the history of inter group conflict. Bias motivated violence continues to take a variety of forms, from symbolic attacks to fatal assault; implicates a range of perpetrators, from intimates to strangers to institutions. The us emerged as the leader of hc policy approaches, implementing legal responses to prejudice and bias in the early 20th century. The us was the first country to circulate the term hate crime (1980s) Following such actions in the us, europe and the asia-pacific region followed suit in implementing their own responses to hc. Diversity of hc legislation in different countries makes it difficult to combine the legislative contexts under a common framework.
