Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK from 1945 to Brexit

by Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce

Book Overview

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices. It examines factors that have underpinned the emergence and occurrence of racial and religious hate crime and the approaches and policies that have been pursued by the state, especially the criminal justice system, to combat this problem. Crucially, it also provides insight into the challenges that are faced in the contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030213196
• ISBN13: 9783030213190
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"