This is a comprehensive approach to understanding hate crime: its causes, consequences, prevention, and prosecution. This riveting new set comes at a time when such acts are still not uncommon. The topic remains relevant despite outcries for an end to such violence. The set covers a wide variety of hate crimes, the consequences for both victims and perpetrators and their communities, efforts to combat hate crime, and other aspects of these ugly offenses that affect everyone. Rather than an 'individual' crime, hate crime is an assault against all members of stigmatized and marginalized communities. This comprehensive, five-volume set addresses these areas in careful analyses that take into account the variety and incidence of hate crimes and the impact they have on the broader realm of crime, punishment, communities, society, and the security of a pluralistic society that| seeks to remain peaceful even in the face of change. The set includes topics such as: hate crime in the Internet age; hate rock; anti-Latino hostilities; Islamaphobia; hate crimes in the War on Terror; school-based anti-hate initiatives; victim services and counseling; and more.