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Five Including victims of ‘hate crime’ in the criminal justice policy process
Abstract
Given the centrality of the victim to the conceptualisation of ‘hate crime’, this chapter explores the significance of including the victim in the ‘hate crime’ policy process. It analyses findings from research carried out on the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum in 2006 and 2007 to illuminate and evaluate efforts to include victims of racist crime in multi-agency working at the London-wide level. The chapter draws out the tensions involved in confronting criminal justice agents with the experiences of victims and also the problem of competing claims by different groups of victims for inclusion in the policy process. First, it discusses ‘race-hate’ crime and multi-agency working in the European Union, and then considers multi-agency working and victims of ‘race-hate crime’ in the United Kingdom, ‘race-hate crime’ and multi-agency cooperation city-wide in London, the ‘silo-approach’ to ‘hate crime’, and lessons from the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum.
Abstract
Given the centrality of the victim to the conceptualisation of ‘hate crime’, this chapter explores the significance of including the victim in the ‘hate crime’ policy process. It analyses findings from research carried out on the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum in 2006 and 2007 to illuminate and evaluate efforts to include victims of racist crime in multi-agency working at the London-wide level. The chapter draws out the tensions involved in confronting criminal justice agents with the experiences of victims and also the problem of competing claims by different groups of victims for inclusion in the policy process. First, it discusses ‘race-hate’ crime and multi-agency working in the European Union, and then considers multi-agency working and victims of ‘race-hate crime’ in the United Kingdom, ‘race-hate crime’ and multi-agency cooperation city-wide in London, the ‘silo-approach’ to ‘hate crime’, and lessons from the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- A victim-centred approach to conceptualising ‘hate crime’ 1
- The normality of everyday ‘hate crime’ 23
- The spatial dynamics of everyday ‘hate crime’ 44
- Tensions in liberalism and the criminalisation of ‘hate’ 72
- Including victims of ‘hate crime’ in the criminal justice policy process 94
- Conclusions: understanding everyday ‘hate crime’ 114
- The UK’s ‘hate crime’ laws 126
- The process of ‘hate crime’ 130
- Controversy about the extent of the anti-Muslim backlash following the July 2005 London bombings 132
- Ethnic group composition of the London boroughs (2001 Census) 136
- Black and Asian minority ethnic (BME) group population proportions and diversity scores for the London boroughs (1991 and 2001) 138
- Methodology of the evaluation of the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum 140
- References 142
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- A victim-centred approach to conceptualising ‘hate crime’ 1
- The normality of everyday ‘hate crime’ 23
- The spatial dynamics of everyday ‘hate crime’ 44
- Tensions in liberalism and the criminalisation of ‘hate’ 72
- Including victims of ‘hate crime’ in the criminal justice policy process 94
- Conclusions: understanding everyday ‘hate crime’ 114
- The UK’s ‘hate crime’ laws 126
- The process of ‘hate crime’ 130
- Controversy about the extent of the anti-Muslim backlash following the July 2005 London bombings 132
- Ethnic group composition of the London boroughs (2001 Census) 136
- Black and Asian minority ethnic (BME) group population proportions and diversity scores for the London boroughs (1991 and 2001) 138
- Methodology of the evaluation of the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum 140
- References 142
