The Effects of Civil Hate Speech Laws: Lessons from Australia.
This article examines the effects of hate speech laws in Australia. Triangulating data from primary and secondary sources, we examine five hypothesized effects: whether the laws provide a remedy to targets of hate speech, encourage more respectful speech, have an educative or symbolic effect, have a...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 631 - 665 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2015
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