Document Type

Article

Publication Date

October 2003

Keywords

securities fraud, investment fraud, hate crimes

Comments

Published in the U.C. Davis law review, v. 36, 2003.

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.