This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world. Drawing from the testimonies of more than 2,000 victims of hate crime, the book identifies the physical, emotional and community-level harms associated with hate crimes and key implications for justice in the context of punitive, restorative, rehabilitative and educative interventions. Hate crime constitutes one of the biggest global challenges of our time and blights the lives of millions of people across the world. Within this context the book generates important new knowledge on victims' experiences and expectations, and uses its compelling evidence-base to identify fresh ways of understanding, researching and responding to hate crime. It also documents the sensitivities associated with undertaking complex fieldwork of this nature, and in doing so offers an authentic account of the very necessary and sometimes unconventional steps which are fundamentalto the process of engaging with 'hard-to-reach' communities.

Shapes the processes of understanding, researching and responding to hate crime victims, through short, accessible chapters Speaks to academics and students from a range of backgrounds including criminology, sociology, law, politics and psychology, as well as to practitioners, policymakers and NGOs within the fields of hate crime, community safety and EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) Draws on a large amount of new and original data to examine hate crime victims as one group, but also to examine how factors such as intersectionality, media narratives, class and geopolitics can influence their experiences and expectations Offers ideas to promote greater coherence in conceptual frameworks and more nuanced engagement with the lived experiences of victim groups

Autorentext

Neil Chakraborti is Professor in Criminology, Head of School and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

Stevie-Jade Hardy is Associate Professor in Hate Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

Inhalt

1. Increasing Problems, Increasing Indifference.- 2. Visible Yet Invisible: Challenges Facing Hate Crime Victims.- 3. Relevant Yet Irrelevant: Challenges Associated With Hate Crime Policy.- 4. The Process Of Engagement: 'Hard To Reach' Or 'Easy To Ignore'?.- 5. Lessons From The Field.- 6. 'Everyday' Hate.- 7. 'Everyday' Contexts.- 8. 'Invisible' Harms.- 9. 'Invisible' Victims.- 10. Implications For Scholarship.- 11. Implications For Policy.