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.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Racism And Hate Crime
• 3. Immigration Control And Racially Motivated Hatred 1900 - To The Early 1960s
• 4. Racially Motivated Discrimination, Extremist Rhetoric And Immigration Control 1960 - To The Early 1980s
• 5. Policing, Social Disorder And Responding To Racially Motivated Offending In The 1980s And 1990s
• 6. Legislating Against Racially Aggravated Offending: From The Crime And Disorder Act 1998 To The Macpherson Report
• 7. Islamophobia And The Social Cohesion Agenda
• 8. Contemporary Political Extremism
• 9. The Response To Hate Crime: From 2010 - Brexit
• 10. Conclusion: Hate Crime: Brexit And Beyond.