In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Violence of Hatred Chapter 1 - Defining and Measuring Hate Crime Chapter 2 - Accounting for Hate Crime: Doing Difference Chapter 3 - Defending the Color Line: Race, Difference, and Hate Crime Chapter 4 - Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately: Violence against Women, Gay Men, and Lesbians Chapter 5 - Beyond Black and White: Minority-on Minority Violence Chapter 6 - Hate Groups and Ideologies of Power Chapter 7 - Permission to Hate: Ethnoviolence and the State Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Doing Difference Differently Appedices Bibliography Index

Barbara Perry is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She is the co-editor of Investigating Difference: Human andCultural Relations in Criminal Justice (1999).