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Hate Crimes : Summary of Selected Proposals and Congressional Authority.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights.
- Constitutional law.
- Crime.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 pages) : digital, PDF file
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2002.
- System Details:
- System requirements: PDF reader software.
- text file
- Summary:
- Surveys Congressional proposals for hate crime legislation to establish new classes of Federal offenses involving crimes motivated by certain victim characteristics, based on Congressional legislative powers under the Constitution and the commerce clause, and considers the anticipated role of the Department of Justice. Provides text of proposed hate crime offenses, various Federal criminal civil rights laws, as well as a summary of various State hate crime statutes.
- Notes:
- CRS Report.
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- Other Format:
- Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Hate Crimes
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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