By Beatrice Webster edited by Mark Walters, University of Sussex Hate crime continues to be a pervasive form of abuse that affects hundreds of thousands of victims every year. For some time now, both racially and religiously motivated crimes have caught the attention of the media and, in turn, the various government agencies tasked with tackling crime….
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…
Gender-motivated violence continues to be a social problem of global proportions. A recent report by the World Health Organisation estimated that 35 per cent of all women globally experience physical or sexual violence at the hands of a current or ex-partner. Data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales has also estimated that there…
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