Judicial rhetoric, meaning-making, and the institutionalization of hate crime law.
A study was conducted to examine how the concept of hate crime has been transformed in judicial discourse from a broad ambiguous category to a focused determinate legal construct that has largely been accepted as a legitimate legal practice. Changes in judicial rhetoric across 38 appellate court op...
| Published in: | Law & Society Review Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 567 - 607 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2000
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