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Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice
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Grattet, Ryken; Jenness, Valerie – Social Forces, 2008
For decades sociologists, criminologists, political scientists and socio-legal scholars alike have focused on the symbolic and instrumental dimensions of law in examinations of the effects of social reform and policy implementation. Following in this tradition, we focus on the relationship between hate crime policy and hate crime reporting to…
Descriptors: Crime, Social Action, Law Enforcement, Social Change