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Title

Hate crimes : confronting violence against lesbians and gay men / edited by Gregory M. Herek, Kevin T. Berrill.

Publication

Newbury Park [Calif.] : Sage Publications, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Berrill, Kevin.
• Herek, Gregory M.

Description

xv, 310 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

Although victimization of lesbians and gay men is not a new problem, its severity appears to be increasing. After several decades of denial and neglect, the problem of anti-gay violence has begun to receive some measure of societal recognition and response. Not only the lesbian and gay male communit.

Subject

• Gays > Crimes against > United States
• Gays > Violence against > United States
• Hate crimes > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Survivor's story : eight bullets / Claudia Brenner -- An overview of the problem. Anti-gay violence and victimization in the United States : an overview / Kevin T. Berrill -- Trends in violence and discrimination against gay men in New York City : 1984 to 1990 / Laura Dean, Shanyu Wu, John L. Martin -- Violence in the streets : anti-lesbian assault and harassment in San Francisco / Beatrice von Schulthess -- Violence against lesbian and gay male youths / Joyce Hunter -- The context. The social context of hate crimes : notes on cultural heterosexism / Gregory M. Herek -- The ecology of anti-gay violence / Howard J. Ehrlich -- Conceptualizing anti-gay violence / Joseph Harry -- Thinking more clearly about hate-motivated crimes / Richard A. Berk, Elizabeth A. Boyd, Karl M. Hamner -- Perpetrators. Psychological heterosexism and anti-gay violence : the social psychology of bigotry and bashing / Gregory M. Herek -- Kids who attack gays / Eric Weissman.
• (cont.) Gay-bashing : a social identity analysis of violence against lesbians and gay men / Karl M. Hamner -- The gay-bashers / Michael Collins -- Surviving and responding. Violence and victimization of lesbians and gay men : mental health consequences / Linda Garnets, Gregory M. Herek, Barrie Levy -- Treatment and service interventions for lesbian and gay male crime victims / David M. Wertheimer -- The community response to violence in San Francisco : an interview with Wenny Kusuma, Lester Olmstead-Rose, and Jill Tregor / Gregory M. Herek -- Organizing against hate on campus : strategies for activists / Kevin T. Berrill -- Documenting the victimization of lesbians and gay men : methodological issues / Gregory M. Herek, Kevin T. Berrill -- Implications for policy. Primary and secondary victimization in anti-gay hate crimes : official response and public policy / Kevin T. Berrill, Gregory M. Herek.

ISBN

• 0803945418
• 0803945426 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91034912^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library