Hate Crime
Concepts, Policy, Future Directions

Are we doing enough to protect vulnerable members of society? Are we doing enough to address the offending behavior of hate crime perpetrators? Are there better ways of understanding and responding to hate crime? This book addresses these issues. It offers ideas on hate crime scholarship and policy.

It provides much-needed ways of taking the 'hate debate' forward as well as offering practical suggestions for developing both scholarship and policy in a more progressive manner. This book is written chiefly for students, academics and practitioners studying and working in the following subject areas: 'race' and anti-racism; ethnicity; religious, gender and sexual identity; disability; equalities and human rights; victimology; offending behavior; socio-legal studies; community safety and cohesion; social policy; crime prevention and reduction; policing; and, criminal justice.

Future developments for hate crime thinking: who, what and why?, Neil Chakraborti
Part One: Developing More Nuanced Understandings of Hate Crime
1. The more things change ae' post 9/11 trends in hate crime scholarship, Barbara Perry
2. The victimisation of Goths and the boundaries of hate crime, Jon Garland
3. Future challenges for hate crime policy: lessons from the past, Hannah Mason-Bish
4. Homophobic hate crime in Northern Ireland, Marian Duggan
5. Verbal and textual hostility in context, Nicole Asquith 6. Hate crime offenders, Jack McDevitt, Jack Levin, Jim Nolan and Susan Bennett Part Two: Developing More Nuanced Responses to Hate Crime
7. Law enforcement and hate crime: theoretical perspectives on the complexities of policing 'hatred', Nathan Hall
8. From hate to prevent: community safety and counter-terrorism, Derek McGhee
9. Hate crime victims and hate crime reporting: some impertinent questions, Kris Christmann and Kevin Wong
10. Racial aggravation or aggravating racism: overcoming the disjunction between legal and subjective realities, David Gadd
11. Healing harms and engendering tolerance: the promise of restorative justice for hate crime, Mark Walters and Carolyn Hoyle