Blood, Threats and Fears

This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world. Drawing from the testimonies of more than 2, 000 victims of hate crime, the book identifies the physical, emotional and community-level harms associated with hate crimes and key implications for justice in the context of punitive, restorative, rehabilitative and educative interventions. Hate crime constitutes one of the biggest global challenges of our time and blights the lives of millions of people across the world. Within this context the book generates important new knowledge on victims' experiences and expectations, and uses its compelling evidence-base to identify fresh ways of understanding, researching and responding to hate crime. It also documents the sensitivities associated with undertaking complex fieldwork of this nature, and in doing so offers an authentic account of the very necessary - and sometimes unconventional - steps which are fundamentalto the process of engaging with 'hard-to-reach' communities.

1. Increasing Problems, Increasing Indifference. - 2. Visible Yet Invisible: Challenges Facing Hate Crime Victims. - 3. Relevant Yet Irrelevant: Challenges Associated With Hate Crime Policy. - 4. The Process Of Engagement: `Hard To Reach Or `Easy To Ignore ? . - 5. Lessons From The Field. - 6. `Everyday Hate. - 7. `Everyday Contexts. - 8. `Invisible Harms. - 9. `Invisible Victims. - 10. Implications For Scholarship. - 11. Implications For Policy.