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SPSSI Capitol Hill Briefing on Hate Crime

Where to go for more information

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Legislation relating to hate crime

17 bills from the 107th Congress contain the phrase "hate crime".  You can view these bills by clicking on the link opposite for the Library of Congress Thomas website.  Use "hate crime" as your keyword/ search term.

http://thomas.loc.gov

U.S. Government websites

US Congress

http://www.congress.org/

Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

http://www.hud.gov/

Department of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/

Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance (2001) 

http://www.justice.gov/crs/pubs/hatecrm.pdf

 

 

University websites of speakers

UCLA (Ed Dunbar)

http://www.ucla.edu/

California State University, San Bernadino (Brian Levin)

http://www.calstate.edu/

Northwestern University (Laura Beth Nielsen)

http://www.northwestern.edu/

University of Maryland, College Park (Phyllis Peres)

http://www.umd.edu/

Bridgewater State College 
(Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino)

http://www.bridgew.edu/

 

 

Other websites related to speakers' research and work

 

Ed Dunbar

Los Angeles Police Department 

http://www.lapdonline.org/

Brian Levin

Home page

http://criminaljustice.csusb.edu/facultyStaff/levin.htm

Michael Lieberman

Anti-Defamation League 

http://www.adl.org/adl.asp

Shari E. Miles-Cohen

American Psychological Association

http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/leadership/shari-miles-cohen.aspx

Laura Beth Nielsen

The American Bar Foundation

http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/

Law & Society Review

http://www.lawandsociety.org/review.htm

Phyllis Peres

Terrapin Reading Society

www.umd.edu/trs

 

Other websites dealing with hate crime issues

 

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

https://ncjrs.gov/spotlight/Hate_Crimes/Summary.html

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The section on hate crime offers a summary of hate crime and lists relevant legislation.

“Stop the Hate!” Campus Hate Crime Prevention Program

http://www.stophate.org

The “Stop the Hate!” Campus Hate Crime Prevention Program supports colleges and universities in preventing and combating hate on campus as well as fostering the development of community and serving as the premiere source of anti-hate educational resources for higher education.

Tolerance.org

http://hatewatch.org/index.jsp

A Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."