Racial and Religious Hate Crime

Offers an in-depth discussion of racial and religious hate crime in the UK and also beyond Focusses on 1945 until present with some additional attention to the 1930s when anti-Semitism was especially prominent in the UK Devotes particular attention to the political context within which racial and religious hate crime has arisen and to the political organisations that promote the politics of hate Draw upon it's authors' backgrounds in criminology, globalization and politics
This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices. It examines factors that have underpinned the emergence and occurrence of racial and religious hate crime and the approaches and policies that have been pursued by the state, especially the criminal justice system, to combat this problem. Crucially, it also provides insight into the challenges that are faced in the contemporary period (especially in the wake of the 2016 EU referendum) in combatting hate crime. Additionally the book briefly considers the importance of the rhetoric of the Trump campaign and the administration's early policies to the contemporary manifestations of racial and religious hate crime.