Hate crime

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Hate crime

• Exam Revision

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• DEFINITION AND TYPES (nb NOT JUST REFERNING TO
  RACISM!!)
• PREVAILANCE/EXTENT (INCREASE/DECREASE
  UNDERREPORTING ECT)
• HATE STEMMING FROM DIFFERENCE - THE OTHER,
  US AND THEM THE OUT GROUP
• EXASPERATED BY-
• CULTURE EG NATIONALISM , COLONIALISM, XENOPHOBIA-
  
• ECONOMY- UNEMPLOYMENT
• MEDIA AND MORAL PANICS EG RECENT ASYLUM SEEKERS
• INTERNET AND THE EASE AT WHICH THOSE WHO ARE
  PERPETRATORS CAN SREAD THEIR MEASSAGE WHILE
  REMAINING ANONYMOUS (SEE FAR RIGHT AND AL QAEDA)

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• LOOK TO EXAMPLES OF HATE CRIME EG-
• FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM
• ATTACKS ON ASYLUM SEEKERS
• NEW MIND REPORT ON HATE CRIME TOWARDS THOSE WITH
  DISABILITIES
• HOMOPHOBIA- EG BRICK LANE BOMBER
• LIMITATIONS OF POLICE RESPONSE