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Study abroad: Malta; Malmo + developing links with other European institutions Year Three spent in partner institution abroad:
Take modules totalling 80 credits abroad and 40 credit module reflecting on learning experience on return Choose from range of modules loosely related to degree Gain certificate of study abroad in addition to degree on graduating

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202CRM Victims and Victimology


Tim Turner - Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Which is Worse?
White male punches a black male in a racially motivated assault White male punches a white male in an assault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6nWXrPDNk

What do we mean by Hate?


The extreme of prejudice, bias, bigotry, hostility and anger Hate crime is essentially criminal behaviour motivated by prejudice

(Hall, 2005)

What social factors should be included (example: ethnicity )? What crimes should be included? What problems might there be in trying to prosecute people for hate crime?

Hate Crime is notoriously difficult to define


It is a relatively new term, which has no global definition as crime is constructed differently across cultures with different social norms
(Hall, 2005)

Redefining Hate Crime


A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person (Macpherson, 1999) No longer a decision based on the Police Officers individual opinion

Beyond Racism
Any hate incident which constitutes a criminal offence, perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated by prejudice or hate (ACPO, 2005:9)

Hate and Oppression


Hate violence is not a series of isolated incidents but rather the consequences of a political culture which allocates rights, privileges and prestige according to biological or social characteristics
(Sheffield, 1995: 438, cited in Hall, 2005: 3)

'Difference'

Class?

Gender?

Faith? Ethnicity? Disability?

Nationality?

Sexuality?

'Difference'

Political & Social Context of Hate


Based on deeply ingrained social hierarchies of identity A hierarchy of difference where your position of power is founded on your race sexuality gender class faith, etc

Examples
Gay .v. Straight

Islam .v. Christianity


Able Bodied People .v. Disabled People Men .v. Women

Hate Crime Key Questions


What prejudices should we criminalise? What crimes are we going to include in our definitions? How strong must the relationship between the offence and the prejudice be? Who will decide? How much hate crime there is depends on how hate crime is conceptualised and defined (Jacobs and Potter, 1998: 27)

Causal Link Between Hate and Offending

High Prejudice / High Causation

Low Prejudice / High 3 Causation

High Prejudice / Low Causation

Low Prejudice / Low Causation

Prejudice: The Foundation of Hatred

Prejudice
An attitude towards a certain social group

Discrimination
A behaviour or action derived from the attitude

Stereotyping
Prejudice attitudes leading to hate behaviour are learnt Social and cultural stereotyping is a major factor To Stereotype someone is to attribute to that person some characteristics which are seen to be shared by all or most of his or her fellow group members (Brown, 1995: 82, cited in Hall, 2005: 27)

Fill in the gaps


All British people are All students are .. All police officers are

All drug users are


All University Lecturers are

We stereotype other groups and see them as different less human


Example The War on Terror

each side generates images of dehumanisation and enacts violent acts which confirm the stereotypes of inhumanity such a process spirals rapidly, mutually reinforcing the discourse of either side. (Young 2007: 158)

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