Critical Perspectives on Hate Crime: Contributions from the Island of Ireland (Palgrave Hate Studies)

This book provides a unique insight into the lived realities of hate crime in Ireland and its treatment within the criminal justice system. The significance of the Irish case is contextualised within the European and global policy contexts and an overview of hate crime in Ireland, both north and south, and its differential treatment in each jurisdiction’s criminal justice system is offered. Presenting empirically grounded analyses of the experiences of commonly targeted identity groups in an Irish context, this study also draws upon their exposure to hate crime and challenges encountered in seeking redress. Combining theory, research and practice, this book represents legal, social, cultural and political concerns pertinent to understanding, preventing, deterring and combatting hate crime across Ireland. It incorporates a variety of perspectives on the hate crime paradigm and addresses many of the cutting-edge debates arising in the field of hate studies. Contributions from Irish and international academic researchers are complemented by applied pieces authored by practitioners and policy makers actively engaged with affected communities. This is a progressive and informed text which will be of great value to activists, policy makers and scholars of hate crime and criminal justice. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction: Mapping the Field of Hate Studies on the Island of Ireland....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 The Disappearing of Hate Crime in the Irish Criminal Justice Process....Pages 17-44 Acknowledgement, Recognition and Response: The Criminal Justice System and Hate Crime in Northern Ireland....Pages 45-69 Legislating Hate in Ireland: The View from Here....Pages 71-91 Ireland in an International Comparative Context....Pages 93-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 LGB and T? The Specificity of Anti-Transgender Hate Crime....Pages 111-136 Transphobic Hate Crime: Making the Invisible Visible....Pages 137-145 Heteronormativity and the Inverted Relationship between Sociopolitical and Legislative Approaches to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Hate Crime....Pages 147-167 Third-Sector Responses to LGB Hate Crime: Community and Garda Engagement....Pages 169-177 Hate Crime Legislation and Violence Against Sex Workers in Ireland: Lessons in Policy and Practice....Pages 179-207 The Challenges of Disablist Hate Crime....Pages 209-232 Intellectual Disability and Hate Crime....Pages 233-242 Hate Crime: An Activist Physical Disability Perspective....Pages 243-251 Islamophobia, Anti-Muslim Racism and Conceptions of Irish Homogeneity....Pages 253-274 Anti-Black Racism: Afrophobia, Exclusion and Global Racisms....Pages 275-299 Combating Racist Hate: An NGO Perspective....Pages 301-309 Cycles of Violence: Racist Hate Crime in Northern Ireland....Pages 311-323 Travellers and Roma in Ireland: Understanding Hate Crime Data through the Lens of Structural Inequality....Pages 325-354 A Civil Society Perspective on Anti-Traveller and Anti-Roma Hate: Connecting Online to On the Street....Pages 355-366 Front Matter....Pages 367-367 Recording and Reporting Racist Hate Crime: Police and Civil Society Responses....Pages 369-391 Front Matter....Pages 367-367 Hate and the State: Northern Ireland, Sectarian Violence and ‘Perpetrator-less Crime’....Pages 393-417 Policing Racism on the Island of Ireland....Pages 419-442 Probation Practice and Offending Motivated by Hate and Discrimination: An All-Ireland Perspective....Pages 443-465 International Legal Framework for Hate Crimes: Which Law for the ‘New’ Countries?....Pages 467-491 Towards an all-Island Approach to Hate Crime in Ireland....Pages 493-502 Back Matter....Pages 503-524