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Blood, Threats and Fears

The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims

  • 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

Part of the book series: Palgrave Hate Studies (PAHS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Increasing Problems, Increasing Indifference

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 3-9
    3. Visible yet Invisible: Challenges Facing Hate Crime Victims

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 11-23
    4. Relevant yet Irrelevant: Challenges Associated with Hate Crime Policy

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 25-40
  3. Undertaking Research with Hate Crime Victims

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
    2. The Process of Engagement: Hard to Reach or Easy to Ignore?

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 43-66
    3. Lessons from the Field

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 67-78
  4. Revealing Hidden Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Everyday Hate

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 81-96
    3. Everyday Contexts

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 97-109
    4. Invisible Harms

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 111-127
    5. Invisible Victims

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 129-146
  5. Transforming Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. Implications for Scholarship

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 149-159
    3. Implications for Policy

      • Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti
      Pages 161-172
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 173-177

About this book

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. 



Reviews

“This book offers new methodological and empirical insights into ‘hate’, specifically in relation to the digital world and hate perpetrated towards ‘hard-to-reach groups’. … This book re-establishes core literature on hate crime and engages with new avenues for debate that will be of great interest to students and scholars of hate studies.” (James Pickles, The British Journal of Criminology, February 23, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Criminology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti

About the authors

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. 

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eBook USD 49.99
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Hardcover Book USD 64.99
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