Randy Blazak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randy Blazak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randy |
| FAMILY NAME | Blazak |
| SIGNATURE | BLAZAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching and Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following article: ‘Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime? The Case for Hate Crime Laws’, Sociology Compass 5/4 (2011): 244–255, 10.1111/j.1751‐9020.2011.00364.x . Author’s introduction Have you ever heard someone say, ‘Isn’t every crime a “hate crime”?’ The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm to society. It is important to look at the e…
Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime
The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm. This article looks at the evolution of bias crime laws, culminating with President Obama’s signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The constitutionality of the laws is ‘discussed and suggestions for sociological research are made. Four elements of hate crime laws are dis…
The prison hate machine
Spaces of Hate
In Bad Company
White Boys to Terrorist Men
There is an important distinction between hate crimes and hate group activity. Although reported hate crimes appear to be declining, there is evidence that hate group activity is increasing. This includes hate group consolidation, the increase in hate Web sites, and more sophisticated recruitment of youth. This research explores how hate groups, specifically racist skinheads, target specific youth populations for recruitment. Using a layman's int…
Audio reviews
Coolbone. Brass‐Hop. Hollywood HR 82088–2. Ben Harper. The Will to Live. Virgin 844178 2 6. Old and In the Way. That High Lonesome Sound. Acoustic Disc ACD 19. Waylon Jennings. Right for the Time. Justice. JR 2101–2. Home Alive. Sony. E2K 67486. John Fogerty. Blue Moon Swamp. Warner Brothers 2–45426‐AB. Bud Freeman. The Pool Angel Hot Jazz Society, 1973–1990: Bud Freeman's California Session 1982. Jazzology CD JCD277. Rudy Balliu. The Rudy Balliu…
White Boys to Terrorist Men
There is an important distinction between hate crimes and hate group activity. Although reported hate crimes appear to be declining, there is evidence that hate group activity is increasing. This includes hate group consolidation, the increase in hate Web sites, and more sophisticated recruitment of youth. This research explores how hate groups, specifically racist skinheads, target specific youth populations for recruitment. Using a layman's int…
The prison hate machine
Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime
The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm. This article looks at the evolution of bias crime laws, culminating with President Obama’s signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The constitutionality of the laws is ‘discussed and suggestions for sociological research are made. Four elements of hate crime laws are dis…
Audio reviews
Coolbone. Brass‐Hop. Hollywood HR 82088–2. Ben Harper. The Will to Live. Virgin 844178 2 6. Old and In the Way. That High Lonesome Sound. Acoustic Disc ACD 19. Waylon Jennings. Right for the Time. Justice. JR 2101–2. Home Alive. Sony. E2K 67486. John Fogerty. Blue Moon Swamp. Warner Brothers 2–45426‐AB. Bud Freeman. The Pool Angel Hot Jazz Society, 1973–1990: Bud Freeman's California Session 1982. Jazzology CD JCD277. Rudy Balliu. The Rudy Balliu…
White Boys to Terrorist Men
There is an important distinction between hate crimes and hate group activity. Although reported hate crimes appear to be declining, there is evidence that hate group activity is increasing. This includes hate group consolidation, the increase in hate Web sites, and more sophisticated recruitment of youth. This research explores how hate groups, specifically racist skinheads, target specific youth populations for recruitment. Using a layman's int…
In Bad Company
Spaces of Hate
The prison hate machine
Teaching and Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following article: ‘Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime? The Case for Hate Crime Laws’, Sociology Compass 5/4 (2011): 244–255, 10.1111/j.1751‐9020.2011.00364.x . Author’s introduction Have you ever heard someone say, ‘Isn’t every crime a “hate crime”?’ The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm to society. It is important to look at the e…
Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime
The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm. This article looks at the evolution of bias crime laws, culminating with President Obama’s signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The constitutionality of the laws is ‘discussed and suggestions for sociological research are made. Four elements of hate crime laws are dis…
Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Hate crime (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Terrorism (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Constitution (2 works) · Constitutionality (2 works)