Synopses & Reviews
The policy makers that govern responses to hate crimes and the institutions that research those crimes have up to this point been separate: policy makers have not taken research into consideration, and researchers have conducted their studies with little reference to policies. This book bridges the gap between the two by bringing together internationally renowned hate crime experts from the domains of academia, policy making, and activism. The contributors provide new perspectives on the nature of hate crimes, their victims, and their perpetrators, exploring a range of themes, challenges, and solutions that have otherwise received little attention. The result is a collection of innovative ways of combating hate crime that combines cutting-edge research with the latest in professional innovations, while remaining accessible to a wide audience.
Review
“At a time of heightened focus on ‘hate crimes’, renowned experts Chakraborti and Garland bring together an international array of commentators to make a persuasive case for restorative approaches to hate crime. The strength of this edited collection is found in the synergy between scholarship and policy.”
Review
“Chakraborti and Garland are to be congratulated for bringing together this exceptionally important, comprehensive, and stimulating collection of essays exploring the hate crime scholarship-policy nexus. Responding to Hate Crime is a text of remarkable range and sophistication; it is both timely and forward-thinking. The tragic consequences of prejudice and bigotry are sadly all too familiar to all of us, but the small ‘signs of progress’ noted by the editors are in no small part due to their own pioneering work in this field.”
Synopsis
Important questions are being raised in the media about hate crime legislation, and controversial stories and examples of recent hate crimes are prominent in the press. This dynamic, comprehensive text provides a multidisciplinary approach to the fascinating topic of hate crimes--drawing on recent developments, issues, and current research and examining the impact of these crimes on different communities and individuals. Students delve into the range of issues that foster hate crimes while learning how these criminal acts impact them, as well as their communities.
About the Author
Neil Chakraborti is a reader in criminology at the University of Leicester. He is coauthor of Hate Crime.Jon Garland is a reader in criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Overview - Neil Chakraborti
Part One: Working Together: Developing Shared Perspectives
The adventures of an accidental academic in ‘policy-land’: a personal reflection on bridging academia, policing and government in a hate crime context - Nathan Hall
Academia from a practitioner’s perspective: a reflection on the changes in the relationship between academia, policing and government in a hate crime context - Paul Giannasi
Reshaping hate crime policy and practice: lessons from a grassroots campaign - an interview with Sylvia Lancaster, founder of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation
Not getting away with it: linking sex work and hate crime in Merseyside - Rosie Campbell
Evidencing the case for hate crime - Joanna Perry
Part Two: Researching Key Issues: Emerging Themes and Challenges
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities to shape hate crime policy - Marian Duggan
Using a ‘layers of influence’ model to understand the interaction of research, policy and practice in relation to disablist hate crime - Chih Hoong Sin
Responding to the needs of victims of Islamophobia - Irene Zempi
Controlling the new far right on the streets: policing the English Defence League in policy and praxis - James Treadwell
Developing themes on young people, everyday multiculturalism and hate crime - Stevie-Jade Hardy
Hate crime against students: recent developments in research, policy and practice - Lucy Michael
We need to talk about women: examining the place of gender in hate crime policy - Hannah Mason-Bish
Part Three: Challenging Prejudice: Combating Hate Offending
Courage in the Face of Hate: a curricular resource for confronting anti-LGBTQ violence - Barbara Perry and D. Ryan Dyck
Policing prejudice motivated crime: a research case study - Gail Mason, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher
Policing hate against Gypsies and Travellers: dealing with the dark side - Zoë James
Understanding how 'hate' hurts: a case study of working with offenders and potential offenders - Paul Iganski, with Karen Ainsworth, Laura Geraghty, Spyridoula Lagou, and Nafysa Patel
Restorative approaches to working with hate crime offenders - Mark Austin Walters
Conclusions - Jon Garland