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The Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Why Affinity-Based Securities and Investment Fraud Constitutes a Hate Crime

Lisa M Fairfax
George Washington University - Law School

U C Davis Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 1073, 2003
U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 921045

Abstract:
The Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Why Affinity-Based Securities and Investment Fraud Constitutes a Hate Crime, 36 U.C. Davis 1073 (2003) explores the parallels between the prototypical hate crime and affinity fraud - securities and investment fraud that targets identifiable religious, racial and ethnic groups - and asserts that those parallels justify treating affinity fraud as a hate crime.

Keywords: securities fraud, investment fraud, hate crime

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Date posted: July 31, 2006 ; Last revised: December 22, 2008

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Fairfax, Lisa M, The Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Why Affinity-Based Securities and Investment Fraud Constitutes a Hate Crime. U C Davis Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 1073, 2003; U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 921045. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=921045

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