hate crime

Response by Joanna Perry to “Britain’s Real Hate Crime Scandal”, by Brendan O’Neill, published in The Spectator on 6 August, 2016

Response by Joanna Perry to “Britain’s Real Hate Crime Scandal”, by Brendan O’Neill, published in The Spectator on 6 August, 2016 http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/the-real-hate-crime-scandal/ Dear Brendan, When you ask us whether the picture of hate crime apparently being painted by the media and even the police is one that ‘you’ recognize, I am curious: who you are…

On 8th August 2016 by Nathan Hall in hate crime, Hate Crime Concept, Hate crime legislation, Hate Crime Policy, Human Rights, Monitoring, Policing and tagged Brexit, hate crime, Hate crime law, political correctness

Discrimination and hate crime in Britain: Understanding, measuring, and tackling it

By Hazel Wardrop, Research Manager at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. During and after the UK’s referendum vote to leave the European Union, recorded hate crime increased significantly, police in England and Wales say. More must be done to understand, measure, and tackle discrimination and hate crime. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has…

On 1st August 2016 by Nathan Hall in hate crime, Hate Crime Concept, Hate Speech, Research and tagged Brexit, EHRC, hate crime, Hate speech, recommendations

“Get yer tits out”: Why Misogynistic Street Harassment is a Hate Crime

By Hannah Mason-Bish, University of Sussex Imagine the scene. It is a hot summer’s day on a building site. After a hard morning of grafting, three builders sit having a drink on the scaffolding. A woman walks by who catches their attention because they deem her to be attractive. They wolf whistle at her. She…

On 17th July 2016 by Mark Walters in Gendered violence, hate crime, Hate Crime Concept

Common European hate crime grounds: Can we find them?

By Piotr Godzisz (INHS Advisory Board member; Advocacy Officer at Lambda Warsaw, PhD Candidate at UCL) and Jolena Flett (Advice and Advocacy Manager, Migrant Centre NI) It has been many years since international organizations started taking interest in the issue of hate crime. Yet, there is still no commonly accepted list of protected grounds –…

On 8th July 2016 by David Brax in disability hate crime, hate crime, Hate Crime Concept, Hate crime legislation, Hate Crime Policy, Monitoring, Policing and tagged European Hate Crime Policy, hate crime, Protected Groups

Making sense of the Orlando Massacre

By David Brax, post-doc at the Centre for European Research (CERGU), and the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and the Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg Before we begin, I want to brief you on the content of this rather long post: It basically states that we don’t yet know exactly what the Orlando massacre was about….

On 18th June 2016 by David Brax in Extremism, Gendered violence, hate crime, Hate Crime Concept, homophobia, Islamophobia, Terrorism and tagged hate crime, Orlando, terrorism

Orlando Shootings – Acknowledging Hate Crime against LGBT community

By: Dr Loretta Trickett Dr Loretta Trickett is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Criminal Law and Human Rights. She is Module Leader on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Nottingham Law School. Loretta’s research interests include gendered offending, victimology and hate crime. She has published articles on masculinities, fear of crime, gang violence, sexual assaults and…

On 16th June 2016 by David Brax in Extremism, hate crime, homophobia, Human Rights, Islamophobia, LEICESTER HATE CRIME PROJECT and tagged hate crime, LGBT, Orlando

An interdisciplinary thought about hate crime

By Joanna Perry Joanna Perry is an independent consultant and co-chair of the advisory board of the International Network for Hate Studies I am currently studying for a post graduate certificate in Online and Distance Education at the Open University. One of the things that I am enjoying the most are the unexpected connections between…

On 28th April 2016 by David Brax in hate crime, Hate Crime Concept, Hate crime legislation, Human Rights, Monitoring, Policing, Research and tagged hate crime, targeted violence

Decivilising Gays and Gypsies?

by Dr. Anthony Donnelly – Drummond Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University Recently (February 2016) I was invited to give a presentation for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender History Month celebrations at Leeds Beckett University. I decided to focus on Gypsy Traveller Roma communities, and, the LGBT communities including the little known issue of LGBT GTR…

On 3rd March 2016 by David Brax in hate crime, homophobia, Human Rights, Research

Islamophobia in the 21st century: Is history repeating?

By Alexander Bisset, Student, University of Sussex, School of Law. It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, perhaps an overused cliché lacking relevance in the modern age? For the people of the Jewish faith it is an epithet seared into the living consciousness. ‘Kristallnacht‘, the night Jews…

On 4th February 2016 by Mark Walters in Antisemitism, hate crime, Hate Speech, Islamophobia, Islamophobic hate crime

How come ‘intolerant’ Poland is among European leaders in collecting data on hate crimes?

By Piotr Godzisz. Piotr is a doctoral student at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw. His research examines the development of national hate crime policies in Europe. As part of a project supported by the UCL European Institute’s Junior Research Forum,…

On 16th January 2016 by David Brax in hate crime, Hate Crime Poland, Human Rights, Monitoring and tagged Poland