Racial and Religious Hate Crime The UK From 1945 to Brexit /

• Main Authors: Laverick, Wendy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Joyce, Peter (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Hate Studies
• Subjects: Hate crimes.; Victimology.; Critical criminology.; Religion and politics.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Hate Studies.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Politics and Religion.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
• Physical Description: XVII, 377 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030213176
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21317-6

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.