Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India

by Sandhya Fuchs

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias and discrimination. In India, a nation with vast socio-cultural diversity, and a complex colonial past, questions about the relationship between law and histories of oppression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638340
• ISBN13: 9781503638341
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"