Debating Hate Crime

This book is indeed a fascinating read and an insight into how attitudes toward the language of hate crime laws have evolved over the years.

~Daniel Perlin, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canadian Law Library Review

This contribution to UBC’s "Law and Society" series analyzes parliamentary debate touching on sexual identity and gender expression at the federal level. Lunny explores ways this debate provides a forum for, and a reflection of, the struggle over social meaning in Canadian society … The work fits squarely within scholarship that sees the social meaning of, and discourse around, identity and social inclusion/exclusion as mutually constructed. It is also relevant to those who study balances between individual and group rights, federal and provincial governance, and parliamentary and charter precedence in Canadian politics today while providing a comparative study for those who have examined similar issues in US or European discourse. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

~S. P. Duffy, Quinnipiac University, CHOICE