Safer Communities: Volume 8 Issue 4

Editorial

Chih Sin

Safer Society

At the intersection: hate crime policy and practice in England and Wales

Joanna Perry

This article argues that while the hate crime model has accelerated criminal justice agencies' understanding of the importance of the victim‐centred approach to investigating and…

Scotland's approach to hate crime law

Tim Hopkins

Hate crime law in Scotland is distinct. The law was extended to cover religious hate crime in 2003, and has been extended to cover disability, sexual orientation and transgender…

Disabled victims of targeted violence, harassment and abuse: barriers to reporting and seeking redress

Chih Sin, Nina Mguni, Chloe Cook, Natasha Comber, Annie Hedges

This article draws on findings from an extensive review of literature conducted as part of a wider project on disabled people's experience of violence, harassment and abuse. In…

Homophobic hate crime — findings from the Gay British Crime Survey 2008

Sam Dick

There is a real paucity of evidence relating to homophobic hate crimes in Britain. This has hampered intelligence‐led approaches by the police and other criminal justice agencies…

Tackling violence against women — lessons for efforts to tackle other forms of targeted violence

Heather Barclay, Diane Mulligan

Efforts at tackling different forms of targeted violence may benefit from lessons generated from the longer‐standing work in tackling violence against women. These include the…

An agnostic view of ‘faith hate’ crime

Paul Iganski

So‐called ‘faith hate’, or religiously aggravated crime stands out starkly as being the uncharted territory in hate crime scholarship and policy research. When the evidence about…