Hate crime, hate studies, globalisation, international law
This book brings together internationally acclaimed scholars with researchers, policy makers and practitioners in order to critically scrutinise the concept of hate crime as an global phenomenon. While
the body of hate crime scholarship has grown exponentially over the past 10-15
years (see e.g. Hall 2014; Gerstenfeld 2014), this type of offending remains
one which has been largely conceptualised and interrogated at a domestic level, primarily mainly within the US and UK. The fact that hate crime is now recognised by a large number of countries throughout the world, and almost every western democracy, as a growing social problem (OSCE 2014) means that this type of crime is ripe for critical analysis at an international level. In particular, this book seeks to examine whether hate crime can, or should, be
conceptualised within an international framework and if so how this might be
achieved. The current growing international recognition that hate crime is a pervasive form of crime – one which reaches all corners of the world – means
that it is now an opportune moment for academics to turn their attentions to
the ways in which this invidious form of offending might be addressed at an
international level - be that through international law, transnational policing
or via NGO work and programmes.