Racial and religious hate crime : the UK from 1945 to Brexit / Wendy Laverick, Peter Joyce.
Contributor(s): Joyce, Peter [author.]
Series: Palgrave hate studies: Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvii, 377 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783030213169Subject(s): Hate crimes -- Great Britain | Racism -- Great Britain | Offenses against religion -- Great BritainDDC classification: 364.150941 LOC classification: HV6773.55.G7 | L3 2019Summary: This volume 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.Summary: This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume 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.
This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.
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