For students, academics, and practitioners, Chakraborti (criminology, U. of Leicester, UK) assembles 11 contributions by criminal justice, criminology, and sociology scholars from the UK, US, and Canada, who address challenges to policy and practice related to hate crime. They propose a better understanding of the concept and better responses to the problem, considering who should be included as victims, the marginalization of homophobic hate crime in Northern Ireland, verbal-textual hostility, motivations, the complexities of policing, hate crime reporting, racially aggravated offending, and restorative justice. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)