Hate crime and policing
Gail F. Mason, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch, Sharon Pickering, Rebecca L. Wickes, Carolyn McKay · 2017
This chapter focuses on the mobilisation of hate crime law and policy within the policing domain. It considers the relevance and role of community policing and human rights frameworks in the hate crime domain. The genesis and spread of hate crime laws and policies are located within the history of social justice movements. Hate crime was first recognised in the context of black civil rights in the United States and subsequently understood and advanced through activism tied to feminist, gay, lesbian, transgender, disability and victim movements. The exposure of the prejudice underpinning the failed police response to the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993 provided the backdrop to the development of hate crime laws and policy in the United Kingdom. Community policing attempts to build trust, dialogue and mutual understanding might be built through symbiotic relationships with targeted communities. Community policing has become a staple of policing approaches since the 1970s.