Academic

Bell on Housing Segregation & Violence

By Lawrence Solum

Jeannine Bell (Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington) has posted Hate Thy Neighbor (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2007) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This Article addresses one of the consequences of racial segregation in housing - violence and intimidation directed at minorities who are integrating white neighborhoods. In describing the history and dynamics of this type of anti-integrationist crime, the Article seeks to offer an introduction to the setting of hate crimes in a neighborhood context. The Article provides a critical bridge between hate crime law and housing law, exploring the substantial difficulties when each of these legal remedies is used to combat this type of violence. The Article concludes by offering a series of solutions uniquely crafted to combat the problem of bias-motivated violence in the neighborhood context.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).