Safer Communities: Volume 16 Issue 4

Introduction to the special issue

Zoë James, Oliver Smith

Beyond empty promises? A reality check for hate crime scholarship and policy

Neil Chakraborti, Stevie-Jade Hardy

The purpose of this paper is to highlight an urgent need for new and improved approaches to supporting hate crime victims and tackling hate crime perpetration in the light of…

Racism, Prevent and education: insisting on an open space

Joanna Haynes, Rowena Passy

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the links between the Brexit referendum and changes to the nature of racism in Britain, and following on from this, the implications of the…

Homophobia, Brexit and constitutional change

Iain Channing, Jonathan Ward

This paper addresses some of the future challenges that the vote to leave the European Union (EU) may have on the UK’s constitutional framework. The potential abolition of the…

Brexit, immigration and expanded markets of social control

Steven Hirschler

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of EU citizens’ exposure to UK immigration practices currently operating on non-EU migrants in the wake of the Brexit…

Roma inclusion post Brexit: a challenge to existing rhetoric?

Zoë James, David Smith

This paper proposes that the UKs exit from the EU is unlikely to impact heavily on the lived reality of Roma, given its negligible impact prior to Brexit. The paper sets out a…