x+242pp. The author studies hate crime in America through a case in a small town in Washington State when the would-be victims of a racial assault turned the confrontation's outcome on its head. One young Asian American fought off his white skinned tormentor with a shoplifted knife, fatally wounding him. The story of the trial that followed and a broader discussion on hate crimes from the era of lynching to the present, the patchwork nature of state laws and the inconsistent enforcement of such laws. Bibliography and Index.

True Crime Criminology