A Life Free From Fear – James Carr, Jennifer Schweppe and Amanda Haynes Jennifer Schweppe In an earlier post, Piotr Godzisz raised the question of an east-west divide in understanding and challenging hate crime. Piotr’s blog highlights significant differences between East and Western Europe in the lens through which hate crime is understood, and consequently…
By Luke Hubbard, Research Assistant, Institute for Public Safety, Crime and Justice, Northampton University Having been able to secure a majority government following the general election, the Conservatives will be able to implement the majority of their election manifesto in full. In this manifesto they pledged to strengthen the law on disability, homophobic, and transphobic…
What’s happening? Hatred in 140 characters or less By Stephanie Carbone Every tweet starts the same by asking: What’s happening? This exploding form of social media and forum for thoughts asks you one simple question and within seconds, your ideas are out there for the world to access and read. In a society where freedom…
Why don’t we recognise Disability Hate Crime for what it is? Jane Healy, Middlesex University I’ve been working on a PhD on disability hate crime since 2009 and although it has become a developing area, our understanding of it remains in its infancy and the numbers of academic researchers pursuing this topic, whilst increasing, remain…
Tackling the hatred in far-right extremism William Baldet is a Prevent practitioner working in Leicester and is based at The St Philips Centre, an inter-faith charity that specialises in promoting dialogue between communities. The Leicester approach differs from other ‘priority areas’ in that it is a community-based grass roots delivery of Prevent that collaborates closely…
Jon Garland, University of Surrey On 3 November 2014 Channel 4 broadcast ‘Make Leicester British’, a programme that, in the channel’s own words, brought together ‘four British citizens and four recent migrants in Leicester to explore the topics of immigration, integration, community and British identity’. The multicultural city of Leicester, with its status as…
Landmark Hate Crime Case in Swedish Court of Appeal By David Brax, Post doc at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science and Center for European Research, Gothenburg University (CERGU) The Assault In the autumn of 2013, a Muslim woman and her daughter, both wearing veils were assaulted by a middle-aged man…
Hate crime: new insights, new solutions – Dr Chih Hoong Sin The evidence base on hate crime continues to grow in the UK and internationally. The Leicester Hate Crime Project for example, recently launched the report of its two-year research, the largest primary study to date looking at hate crime.The team has been able…
LEST WE FORGET THE HUMAN COST OF HATE CRIME I recently read an article by Finnola Farrant who concluded that she had allowed her research to become ‘contaminated’ and by extension it had contaminated her. Those words typified my experience as Lead Researcher for the Leicester Hate Crime Project. Over the past two years I…
HATE CRIME HURTS … SO DOES OUR CULTURE OF DENIAL AND DEFENSIVENESS Do I expect them to do anything? It’s a waste of time. If they cannot deal with Stephen Lawrence in 20 years what chance do I have? This comment from a Zimbabwean refugee is illustrative of the sense of frustration shared by victims…
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