A Policymaker's Guide to Hate Crimes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537074641)

Despite the best efforts of political and community leaders to foster tolerance and understanding, deep-seated racial tensions continue to plague the Nation. News stories of bias-motivated incidents fill the national pages of major U.S. newspapers. A rash of arsons at African-American churches in the South, for example, has spurred the Federal Government to launch a major investigation that, so far, has led to the arrest of 120 suspects. Of the 298 Federal arson investigations carried out between January 1995 and November 1996, approximately 43 percent involved fires at black churches, although white churches far outnumber black churches in the Nation. Political and religious leaders said that the disproportionate number of black churches being burned indicated that the Nation was experiencing a serious wave of hate crimes.

Author: Bureau of Justice Assistance,U. S. Department of Justice
ISBN-10: 1537074644
ISBN-13: 9781537074641
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2016
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.17d