Hate crime and the city

The impression often conveyed by the media about hate crime offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting out their extremely bigoted views, target their victims in premeditated violent attacks. Scholarly research on the perpetrators of hate crime has begun to provide a more nua...

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Autor principal: Iganski, Paul (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press 2008.
Edición:1st ed
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  • 'Hate crime' and the city; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; 1. A victim-centred approach to conceptualising 'hate crime'; 2. The normality of everyday 'hate crime'; 3. The spatial dynamics of everyday 'hate crime'; 4. Tensions in liberalism and the criminalisation of 'hate'; 5. Including victims of 'hate crime' in the criminal justice policy process; 6. Conclusions: understanding everyday 'hate crime'; Appendix A. The UK's 'hate crime' laws; Appendix B. The process of 'hate crime'
  • Appendix C. Controversy about the extent of the anti-Muslim backlash following the July 2005 London bombingsAppendix D. Ethnic group composition of the London boroughs (2001 Census); Appendix E. Black and Asian minority ethnic (BME) group population proportions and diversity scores for the London boroughs (1991 and 2001); Appendix F. Methodology of the evaluation of the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum; References; Index