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Pervasive Racism: How public and political responses to a recent tragedy in Ireland’s Traveller Community were shaped by Anti-Traveller hostility

Amanda Haynes, Sindy Joyce and Jennifer Schweppe Hate and Hostility Research Group, University of Limerick On Saturday the 10th of October 2015, a horrific fire devastated the homes of three families in Carrickmines in South Dublin, Ireland. Ten people, including five children and a pregnant woman, lost their lives. Fifteen survivors were left homeless following…

On 9th November 2015 by Mohamad Al-Hakim in Uncategorized and tagged Ireland, racism, Tragedy, Traveller Communities

Disablist Hate Crime- A Suitable Case for Treatment

Professor Alan Roulstone outlines the complex dynamics of ‘vulnerability’ evident in socio-legal responses to disabilist hate crime. Social scientists rightly attach scepticism to the latest crisis or moral panic-whether it emanates from government, print or social media. This scepticism is based on a healthy degree of doubt as to whether a social phenomenon is…

On 20th October 2015 by Mohamad Al-Hakim in Uncategorized and tagged Disability hate crime

Gendering Homophobic Hate Crime: Reporting, Responses and Research

Part of the Challenging ‘Hate Crime’: Research, Policy and Practice series by Marian Duggan As part of Hate Crime Awareness Week, the University of Liverpool’s International Criminological Research Unit partnered with their Moving on with Life and Learning colleagues to host a one-day conference entitled Challenging ‘Hate Crime’: Research, Policy and Practice. Speakers and…

On 16th October 2015 by Mohamad Al-Hakim in Uncategorized

When is the time to hate?

By Professor Klas Borell Anti-Muslim prejudice and hate crimes increase in Europe and the USA after sudden and dramatic events, a new study in the journal Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations reveals. Hate crimes are, however, in themselves dramatic events with paradoxical effects. The study compared data from the USA and Europe to analyze the temporal links…

On 21st September 2015 by Mark Walters in hate crime, Islamophobia, Islamophobic hate crime, Terrorism

Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Global Tensions in Effecting Sexual and Religious Rights

Dr Marian Duggan It is Gay Pride season across the globe as many cities come together to celebrate all things lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). As well as promoting achievements, the Gay Pride parade has become a necessary political platform for many sexual minorities to demonstrate ongoing prejudice, inequality and oppression. The first…

On 20th August 2015 by Mark Walters in Equal marriage, homophobia and tagged LGBTQ rights

Police Hate Crime Challenges Examined in New Report

Dr Loretta Trickett and Dr Paul Hamilton of Nottingham Trent University share their latest research findings and recommendations regarding the policing of hate crime. As issues of ‘identity’ become increasingly politicised, and in some circles demonised, an independent study into the policing of hate crime has for the first time investigated the perspectives…

On 17th August 2015 by Mohamad Al-Hakim in hate crime, Policing, Research and tagged hate crime, Policing, recommendations

Poland is stepping up the fight against hate

By Piotr Godzisz For the first time, the Polish government agrees that people targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or disability deserve the enhanced protection purportedly offered by hate crime laws. From the point of view of scholarship, the on-going debate provides some interesting insights on the internationalization of anti-hate policies, identity politics…

On 4th August 2015 by Mark Walters in Uncategorized

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Celebrating the paradox

Written by Viera Striskova, University of Geneva. This December marks a momentous occasion as it will be 50 years since the adoption of the first legally binding international treaty protecting human rights: the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). A necessary reflection on the issue started with the International Day for the…

On 21st July 2015 by Mohamad Al-Hakim in Uncategorized

A Life Free from Fear

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…

On 25th June 2015 by Loretta Tricket in Hate crime legislation

Disability Hate Crime Motivation Survey

Over the last few years many disability hate crime campaigners have called for perpetrator analysis. I am one of those: I have been advocating for it since 2008, when I wrote the disability hate crime report, Getting Away With Murder, (for the UK Disabled People’s Council, Disability Now magazine and Scope). At the (British) Disability…

On 25th June 2015 by Mark Walters in Uncategorized