In this article, Tim Davies discusses the relatively new concept of ‘hate crime’. He shows how current legislation around hate crime arose from 1960s laws against discrimination. Note the five areas covered by hate crime — gender identity, ethnicity, disability, religion/faith and sexual orientation.
Hate crimes are an example of crime in which it is almost impossible to discover the true incidence, in part due to the low levels of reporting by victims. Note the four main types of offender, and that perpetrators are not typically those involved in extreme far-right politics, but rather ‘ordinary’ people who feel marginalised and excluded
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