CJS31150/CJS3115 - Hate Crimes in the 21st Century

(3 units)

The history and criminology of hate crimes, hate crime laws, perpetrator typologies, recruitment practices and systems responses are examined. The impacts of fear, bias, ignorance, stressors, conformity and violence are fundamentally complex and will be analyzed through the lenses of historical trauma and ecology. Impacts of hate crimes as seen from the offenders, victims, communities and societal responses are evaluated.
Students encouraged to CJS3108 prior to this course.