Citation

Perry J. Crim. Justice Policy Rev. 2016; 27(6): 610-626.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0887403415601473

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The hate crime concept describes a set of actions that span the worlds of activism, policy, and scholarship and provides the basis for these actors to work together and open up the rule of law to communities that often exist outside its protection. However, there is huge diversity in current approaches across and within these worlds to recording, reporting, legislating against, and researching hate crime, which challenges the notion of a shared and global concept of hate crime. This article offers a framework that helps describe the processes and relationships that generate and refine national and international concepts of hate crime. In so doing, it starts to assess to what extent an internationally coherent approach to understanding and responding to targeted, bigoted violence has been achieved.

Language: en