Islamophobia and Acts of Violence The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims

Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims is a collection of perspectives by authors from a variety of academic disciplines such as legal studies, communication studies, political science, and criminology on the subject of Anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Stereotypes of middle-eastern people had been part of the American landscape for decades prior to 9/11, and this act of terrorism intensified American misconceptions of the already marginalized community and led to criminal victimization of persons believed to be members of the Muslim community.

This volume seeks to bring various aspects of Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors, from microaggressions that reflect bigotry to bias motivated criminal acts, commonly referred to as hate crimes, to a broad audience. This volume could also serve as a supplemental text for educators who teach in areas such as ethnoviolence, hate crimes and terrorism, criminology, sociology, immigration studies, political science, world religions, especially middle eastern studies, and other related courses.

Carolyn Turpin Petrosino is Professor Emerita and is currently Adjunct faculty at Bridgewater State University and the founding chair of the Criminal Justice Department. She has 18 years of experience as a correctional social worker, correctional unit supervisor, and parole hearing officer within
the New Jersey correctional and parole systems. Dr. Petrosino' s research focus is on hate crime phenomena. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her recent book is Understanding Hate Crime: Acts, Motives, Offenders, Victims, and Justice.

Chapter 1 - The Nature and Scope of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim Hate Crime in
Contemporary America
Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino

Chapter 2 - The Structure, Impact, and Power of the American Islamophobia Network
Zainab Arain & Abbas Barzegar

Chapter 3 - Ripples of Hate: Measuring How Hate Crimes Hurt More
Randy Blazak

Chapter 4 - Attacking Muslims in North America - An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist Attacks
and Plots from 1970-2016
Brian Nussbaum & Andrew Vitek

Chapter 5 - The Victimization of Muslim American Women and the Challenges of Imperial
Feminism in Comparative Context
Engy Abdelkader

Chapter 6 - An Opinion: What the Qur'an Says that Disqualifies the Perspectives of Militant
Radical Muslims
Jabbar Al-Obaidi

Chapter 7 - Trends and Catalysts of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime and Bigoted Attitudes:
A Multi-Decade Analysis
Brian Levin

Chapter 8 - Conclusions: Veils Uncovered and Veils that Remain
Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino