'Hate Crime' and the City

The impression often conveyed by the media about hate crime offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting out their extremely bigoted views, target their victims in premeditated violent attacks.Scholarly research on the perpetrators of hate crime has begun to provide a more complex picture, but the preoccupation of researchers with convicted offenders neglects the vast majority of hate crime offenders that do not come into contact with the criminal justice system. This book widens understanding by demonstrating that many offenders are just ordinary people who offend in the context of their everyday lives

Paul Iganski is a Lecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University and specialises in research and writing on 'hate crime'

List of tables and figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
A victim-centred approach to conceptualising 'hate crime'	p. 1
Conceptual disarray of the notion of 'hate crime'	p. 2
'Hate crime' as a scholarly domain	p. 5
The harms of 'hate crime'	p. 6
From extreme to everyday 'hate crime'	p. 13
From the background to the foreground of 'hate crime'	p. 17
Conclusion: situating the victim at the centre of 'hate crime'	p. 20
The normality of everyday 'hate crime'	p. 23
The commonalities of everyday 'hate crime'	p. 24
Structure, action, agency and everyday 'hate crime'	p. 39
Conclusion: the significance of the situational dynamics of 'hate crime'	p. 42
The spatial dynamics of everyday 'hate crime'	p. 45
London: capital of diversity	p. 45
London: capital of 'hate crime'	p. 47
Inter-group friction and 'race-hate crime'	p. 52
Power differentials and 'race-hate crime'	p. 53
The geography of everyday 'hate crime'	p. 59
Defended neighbourhoods	p. 61
The political economy of 'hate crime'	p. 64
Conclusion: life in the city and everyday 'hate crime'	p. 70
Tensions in liberalism and the criminalisation of 'hate'	p. 73
How 'hate crimes' hurt more	p. 74
Punishing 'hate crime' offenders for their bad values	p. 83
Everyday 'hate crime' and the declaratory value of 'hate crime' laws	p. 86
Conclusion: legislating morality	p. 92
Including victims of 'hate crime' in the criminal justice policy process	p. 95
'Race-hate' crime and multi-agency working in the European Union	p. 96
Multi-agency working and victims of 'race-hate crime' in the UK	p. 97
'Race-hate crime' and multi-agency cooperation city-wide in London	p. 100
The 'silo-approach' to 'hate crime'	p. 108
Conclusion: lessons from the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum	p. 111
Conclusions: understanding everyday 'hate crime'	p. 115
A victim-centered approach to understanding 'hate crime' offending	p. 117
'Hate crime' and the criminologies of everyday life	p. 120
'Hate crime', human rights and 'the state'	p. 122
The UK's 'hate crime' laws	p. 127
The process of 'hate crime'	p. 131
Controversy about the extent of the anti-Muslim backlash following the July 2005 London bombings	p. 133
Ethnic group composition of the London boroughs (2001 Census)	p. 137
Black and Asian minority ethnic (BME) group population proportions and diversity scores for the London boroughs (1991 and 2001)	p. 139
Methodology of the evaluation of the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum	p. 141
References	p. 143
Index	p. 153
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