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TIM TURNERCOURSE DIRECTOR CRIMINOLOGY

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY


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Our courses scored100%in the 2011National Student Survey

in terms of satisfaction


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Study abroad: Malta; Malmo + developing linkswith other European institutions

Year Three spent in partner institution abroad:

Take modules totalling 80 credits abroad and 40 credit

module reflecting on learning experience on return

Choose from range of modules loosely related to degree

Gain certificate of study abroad in addition to degree on

graduating
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Optional field trips abroad: New York
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Essays

Exams

Poster presentations

Reports

Case studies

Podcasts


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Lectures

Seminars / Workshops

On-line environment

Independent study


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Tim Turner - Senior Lecturer in Criminology

202CRM Victims and Victimology


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Which is Worse?

White male punches a black male in a

racially motivated assault

White male punches a white male in an

assault


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What do we mean by Hate?

The extreme of prejudice, bias, bigotry,

hostility and anger

Hate crime is essentially criminal behaviour

motivated by prejudice

(Hall, 2005)


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What social factors should be included

(example: ethnicity )?

What crimes should be included?

What problems might there be in trying toprosecute people for hate crime?


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It is a relatively new term, which has noglobal definition as crime is constructed

differently across cultures with differentsocial norms

(Hall, 2005)

Hate Crime isnotoriously difficult to

define


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Redefining Hate Crime

A racist incident is any incident which is

perceived to be racist by the victim orany other person (Macpherson, 1999)

No longer a decision based on the

Police Officers individual opinion


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Beyond Racism

Any hate incident which constitutes acriminal offence, perceived by the victim or

any other person, as being motivated by

prejudice or hate (ACPO, 2005:9)


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Hate and Oppression

Hate violence is not a series of isolated incidents

but rather the consequences of a politicalculture which allocates rights, privileges andprestige according to biological or socialcharacteristics

(Sheffield, 1995: 438, cited in Hall, 2005: 3)


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'Difference'


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Disability?

Gender?

Ethnicity?

Class?

Nationality? Sexuality?

'Difference'

Faith?


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Political & Social Context of Hate

Based on deeply ingrained socialhierarchies of identity

A hierarchy of difference where your

position of power is founded on your race

sexuality gender class faith, etc


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Examples

Gay .v. Straight

Islam .v. Christianity

Able Bodied People .v. Disabled People

Men .v. Women


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Hate Crime Key Questions

What prejudices should we criminalise?

What crimes are we going to include in ourdefinitions?

How strong must the relationship betweenthe offence and the prejudice be? Who willdecide?

How much hate crime there is dependson how hate crime is conceptualised anddefined (Jacobs and Potter, 1998: 27)


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Low Prejudice / High

Causation

Low Prejudice /

Low Causation

Causal Link Between Hate and Offending

High Prejudice /

Low Causation

High Prejudice /

High Causation1

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Prejudice: The Foundation of Hatred

An attitude towards a

certain social group

A behaviour or action

derived from the

attitude

Prejudice Discrimination


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Stereotyping

Prejudice attitudes leading to hate behaviour

are learnt Social and culturalstereotyping is a major factor

To Stereotype someone is to attribute to thatperson some characteristics which areseen to

be shared by all or most of his or her fellowgroup members(Brown, 1995: 82, cited in Hall, 2005: 27)


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Fill in the gaps

All British people are

All students are ..

All police officers are

All drug users are

All University Lecturers are


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We stereotype other groups and see them as different

less human

ExampleThe War on Terror

each side generates images of dehumanisation

and enacts violent acts which confirm the

stereotypes of inhumanity such a process spirals

rapidly, mutually reinforcing the discourse of eitherside.(Young 2007: 158)


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