Given growing interest in hate crimes and with President's Clinton's White House Conference, this briefing was designed to further our understanding of the causes and consequences of hate crimes. Implications of the research findings for current policy initiatives were be adressed.

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Speakers and topics:

Jeanine Cogan, James Marshall Public Policy Scholar
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Moderator

Donald Green, PhD, Director of the Institute for Social Policy Studies
Yale University
Hate crime as a battle over turf: Implications for prevention and policy.

Karen Franklin, PhD Forensic Psychology Fellow
Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training, Washington University
Psychosocial motivations of hate crimes perpetrators: Implications for prevention and policy.

Gregory Herek, PhD Research Psychologist
University of California, Davis
The impact of victimization: Why hate crimes are a special case.

Edward Dunbar, EdD, Clinical Psychologist
University of California, Los Angeles
Hate crimes in LA county: perpetration and victimlogy trends

Michael Lieberman, Washington Counsel, Anti-Defamation League
Current federal initiatives addressing hate crimes.

Victim/Survivor perspectives:

Mark Weinress
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence

Karen Narasaki
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium

Sponsored by:
the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
and the American Psychological Association

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