This Hate

Hate Me, Hate Me Not: Hate Speech Detection on Facebook

While favouring communications and easing information sharing, Social Network Sites are also used to launch harmful campaigns against specific groups and individuals. Cyberbullism, incitement to self-harm practices, sexual predation are just some of the severe effects of massive online offensives. Moreover, attacks can be carried out against groups of victims and can degenerate in physical viol...

Hate Crimes

Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt Northeastern University I. Legal Distinctions II. Hate Crimes and Prejudice III. Why Treat Hate Crimes Differently? IV. Problems in Collecting Hate Crime Data V. Types of Hate Crimes VI. Organized Hate Groups VII. Are Hate Crimes on the Rise? VIII. Responses to Hate crimes IX. Conclusion GLOSSARY Defensive Hate Crimes Hate offenses aimed against particular “outsider...

Hating Hate Crime Legislation

Love, Hate and Reparation

The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...

Neural Correlates of Hate

In this work, we address an important but unexplored topic, namely the neural correlates of hate. In a block-design fMRI study, we scanned 17 normal human subjects while they viewed the face of a person they hated and also faces of acquaintances for whom they had neutral feelings. A hate score was obtained for the object of hate for each subject and this was used as a covariate in a between-sub...