Responding to Hate Crime: The Case for Connecting Policy and Research

306 Pages·2015·1.458 MB·English

by  Neil Chakraborti, Jon Garland, (eds.)

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RESPONDING TO
HATE CRIME
The case for connecting
policy and research
Edited by Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by

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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
About the contributors viii
Introduction and overview 1
Neil Chakraborti
Part One: Working together: developing shared perspectives 11
one The adventures of an accidental academic in ‘policy-land’: 13
a personal reflection on bridging academia, policing and
government in a hate crime context
Nathan Hall
two Academia from a practitioner’s perspective: a reflection on 27
the changes in the relationship between academia, policing
and government in a hate crime context
Paul Giannasi
three Reshaping hate crime policy and practice: lessons from a 39
grassroots campaign
An interview with Sylvia Lancaster, founder of the
Sophie Lancaster Foundation
four Not getting away with it: linking sex work and hate crime 55
in Merseyside
Rosie Campbell
five Evidencing the case for hate crime 71
Joanna Perry
Part Two: Researching key issues: emerging themes and 85
challenges
six Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 87
communities to shape hate crime policy
Marian Duggan
seven Using a ‘layers of influence’ model to understand the 99
interaction of research, policy and practice in relation to
disablist hate crime
Chih Hoong Sin
eight Responding to the needs of victims of Islamophobia 113
Irene Zempi
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nine Controlling the new far right on the streets: policing the 127
English Defence League in policy and praxis
James Treadwell
ten Developing themes on young people, everyday 141
multiculturalism and hate crime
Stevie-Jade Hardy
eleven Hate crime against students: recent developments in 155
research, policy and practice
Lucy Michael
twelve We need to talk about women: examining the place of 169
gender in hate crime policy
Hannah Mason-Bish
Part Three: Challenging prejudice: combating hate offending 183
thirteen Courage in the Face of Hate: a curricular resource for 185
confronting anti-LGBTQ violence
Barbara Perry and D. Ryan Dyck
fourteen Policing prejudice motivated crime: a research case study 199
Gail Mason, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher
fifteen Policing hate against Gypsies and Travellers: dealing with 215
the dark side
Zoë James
sixteen Understanding how ‘hate’ hurts: a case study of working 231
with offenders and potential offenders
Paul Iganski, with Karen Ainsworth, Laura Geraghty,
Spiridoula Lagou and Nafysa Patel
seventeen Restorative approaches to working with hate 243
crime offenders
Mark Austin Walters
Conclusions 259
Jon Garland
Notes 269
Index 275
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Acknowledgements
Putting an edited collection together is never an easy task, particularly
when its success relies on the goodwill of multiple contributors with
their own commitments, workload pressures and deadlines. Nonetheless,
our role as editors was made considerably easier by the efforts shown
by our co-contributors in producing engaging, thought-provoking
chapters for this book. We are grateful to you all. We would like to
offer thanks to Karen Bowler for her initial help in getting this project
off the ground and to the rest of the Policy Press team for being such
a pleasure to work with.
Thanks also to our friends, families and colleagues, and to all of the
practitioners, policy leads, fellow academics, activists and unsung heroes
who have inspired our thinking around hate crime issues. There are
too many of you to thank individually but you all make our worlds
much better places.
And a final mention to our old friend ‘Death Incarnate’ whose
response to our last edited book left quite an impression. Your promise
to reward us with ‘a slow and painful death … for challenging the
white supremacy of the English countryside’ was not quite the fan-
mail we were hoping for, but we hope you like this book just as much
as the last one.
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About the contributors
Karen Ainsworth began her career in local government, working
in the housing department at Burnley Borough Council, UK, being
responsible for managing the sheltered housing service, the lettings
team and three neighbourhood offices across Burnley and Padiham.
Following this Karen worked in a strategic management role with
responsibility for anti-social behaviour and community safety policy.
Since October 2010, she has managed Smile Mediation, a volunteer-led
organisation based in Burnley that delivers a wide range of mediation
services across Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester,
including a Hate Crime Awareness project. Karen is the chair of
Safenet Domestic Abuse Services and is strongly committed to raising
awareness of the dynamics of domestic violence and abuse. She is also
a board member of Calico Homes, a stock transfer housing association.
Rosie Campbell OBE has been involved in sex work research, policy
development and support service delivery in the UK for two decades.
She advocates for policies that enhance the safety and rights of sex
workers. She was a founder and former chair of the UK Network of Sex
Work Projects (UKNSWP) and has also worked with UKNSWP to set
up the pioneering National Ugly Mugs scheme. As coordinator of the
Armistead Street Project (a sex work support, information and sexual
health promotion service) in Liverpool, she worked with Merseyside
Police to introduce the policy of treating crimes against sex workers as
hate crime. She is chief executive officer of the Leeds-based sex work
project Genesis, is completing her PhD on Merseyside’s sex work and
hate crime approach (based at Durham University), and is a visiting
research fellow at the University of Leeds.
Neil Chakraborti is a reader in criminology at the University of
Leicester, UK, and an adjunct professor at the University of Ontario
Institute of Technology, Canada. He has published widely within the
field of hate crime, and his books include Islamophobia, Victimisation
and the Veil (with Irene Zempi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Hate
Crime: Concepts, Policy, Future Directions (Routledge, 2010); Hate Crime:
Impact, Causes and Responses (with Jon Garland, Sage, 2014 and 2009);
and Rural Racism (with Jon Garland, Routledge, 2004). Neil is the
principal investigator of a project funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council exploring victims’ experiences of hate crime, and
co-investigator of an EU-funded study of populist political discourse
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and its effects on those ‘othered’ by such discourse. He has also been
appointed as a commissioner by the Howard League for Penal Reform
on the first ever inquiry into sex in prisons within England and Wales.
He sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology, is
chair of research on the board of trustees at the Howard League for
Penal Reform, and is director of the Leicester Centre for Hate Studies.
Marian Duggan is a senior lecturer in criminology at Sheffield
Hallam University, UK. Her research interests focus on gender, sexuality
and hate crime victimisation, including homophobia in Northern
Ireland, gendered experiences of hate crime and male engagement in
‘violence against women’ prevention strategies. Marian is the author of
Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia
in Northern Ireland (Ashgate, 2012) and co-editor (with M. Cowburn,
P. Senior and A. Robinson) of Values in Criminology and Community
Justice (Policy Press, 2013).
D. Ryan Dyck is director of research and policy at Egale Canada
Human Rights Trust, Canada’s only national LGBT human rights
organisation. He leads the organisation’s research and policy agenda
on matters relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans human rights
both in Canada and abroad, with a focus on hate crime, youth suicide,
education, families and seniors. Ryan’s background lies in policy
development, government relations and community engagement,
having worked for the Canadian federal government in the areas of
security and intelligence, governance, immigration and labour law. He
holds an MA in women’s studies from York University.
Jon Garland is a reader in criminology in the Department of Sociology
at the University of Surrey, UK. His main areas of research are in the
fields of hate crime, rural racism, community and identity, policing and
victimisation. He is currently working on the Leicester Hate Crime
project, a two-year hate crime victimisation study funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council. Previously he has researched
the effectiveness of police diversity training, examined the issue of
racism in football, and investigated the nature and impact of rural
racism. He has published four books, including Racism and Anti-racism
in Football (with Mike Rowe, Palgrave, 2001) and Hate Crime: Impact,
Causes, and Consequences (with Neil Chakraborti, Sage, 2014 and 2009).
He has also had numerous journal articles and reports published on
issues of racism, the far right, hate crime, policing, cultural criminology
and identity.
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