The impression often conveyed by the media about hate crime
offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting
out their extremely bigoted views, target their victims in
premeditated violent attacks. Scholarly research on the
perpetrators of hate crime has begun to provide a more nuanced
picture. But the preoccupation of researchers with convicted
offenders neglects the vast majority of hate crime offenders that
do not come into contact with the criminal justice system. This
book, from a leading author in the field, widens understanding of
hate crime by demonstrating that many offenders are ordinary people
who offend in the context of their everyday lives. Written in a
lively and accessible style, the book takes a victim-centred
approach to explore and analyse hate crime as a social problem,
providing an empirically informed and scholarly perspective. Aimed
at academics and students of criminology, sociology and socio-legal
studies, the book draws out the connections between the individual
agency of offenders and the background structural context for their
actions. It adds a new dimension to the debate about criminalising
hate in light of concerns about the rise of punitive and expressive
justice, scrutinizing the balance struck by hate crime laws between
the rights of offenders and the rights of victims.
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