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American skinheads : the criminology and control of hate crime / Mark S. Hamm ; foreword by William J. Chambliss.

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

Books & Reports

Alternate Title

The criminology and control of hate crime.

Call Number

HV 6439 .U5 H3 1993

Authors

Publishers

  • Westport, Conn. :  Praeger, c1993.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

xvii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

The author presents a modern theory of hate crime, and then rigorously tests the theory with interview data derived from skinheads who have committed an array of violent acts against people because of their race, religion, or sexual preference. Part One traces the roots of the Skinhead Nation through the Beats, Mods, Hippies, and Punks in London. Following is a discussion of the rise of the Neo-Nazi offshoots (Romantic Violence, The Aryan Youth Movement), recruiters (Tom Metzger), and recruitment tools (WAR Magazine and Hotline, electronic mail, Race and Reason), and appearances on the Oprah Winfrey and Geraldo Rivera shows. In Part Two, the author discusses the accepted sociological perspectives on terrorist youth subcultures (not "gangs"), then presents findings of his own study of 36 skinheads, including social and economic characteristics, psychological profiles, the role of skinhead "girls", use of drugs and weapons, satanism, and neo-fascism. Part three assesses the future for American neo-Nazism and recommends steps for preventing skinhead terrorism.

Subject

Contents

1. The Neo-Nazi Skinheads of North America. -- 2. A history of the Skinhead Nation. -- 3. From Haight Ashbury to Plymouth Rock: the rise of the American Neo-Nazi Skinheads. -- 4. The internal structure of a terrorist youth subculture. -- 5. Sociological perspectives on terrorist youth subcultures. -- 6. Entering the skinhead subculture. -- 7. Terrorism, rebellion, and style. -- 8. Terrorism and racist media images. -- 9. The social organization of terrorist youth subcultures. -- 10. Anti-feminism and the orthodoxy of domestic terrorism. -- 11. Beer, bonding, and the ceremony of berserking. -- 12. Chaos in the soul: Nazi occultism and the morality of vengeance. -- 13. The criminology and control of domestic terrorism.

Series

Praeger series in criminology and crime control policy

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