Responding to hate crime : the case for connecting policy and research /
Neil Chakraborti.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
Intro -- RESPONDING TO HATE CRIME -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the contributors -- Introduction and overview -- Signs of progress -- Faultlines between scholarship and policy -- About the book -- Part One: Working together: developing shared perspectives -- 1. The adventures of an accidental academic in 'policy-land': a personal reflection on bridging academia, policing and government in a hate crime context -- Stephen Lawrence, Sir William Macpherson and an 'accidental' academic -- Lessons learned from the 'two worlds' of criminology and policy making -- Concluding comments -- 2. Academia from a practitioner's perspective: a reflection on the changes in the relationship between academia, policing and government in a hate crime context -- Introduction -- The murder of Stephen Lawrence -- 1999 - the year that everything began to change -- The response in Staffordshire -- Police leadership -- Cross-Government Hate Crime Programme -- Academia and the links to central policy -- Defining hate crime -- Integration of academics into the policy process -- Conclusion -- 3. Reshaping hate crime policy and practice: lessons from a grassroots campaign -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- 4. Not getting away with it: linking sex work and hate crime in Merseyside -- Introduction -- Sex worker victimisation: under-reporting, criminalisation and safety -- Connecting sex worker victimisation, 'othering' and hate crime -- Development and key strands of Merseyside's sex work and hate crime approach -- Sex worker and police views: perceived vulnerability and targeted victimisation -- Conclusion -- 5. Evidencing the case for 'hate crime' -- Introduction -- The hate crime evidence gap in international focus -- International and national constructions of 'hate crime' -- Towards a fuller international conceptualisation of hate crime: a role for academia.