Drawing upon a unique research partnership between police and academics and entwining policing responses with key debates on the meaning of hate crime, this book interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing.

Part I: Introduction

1. Introduction

Part II: Context for Policing Hate Crime in Victoria

2. Hate Crime Terminology and Meaning: Setting the Scene

3. Hate Crime and Policing: Police, Community and Social Change

4. Victoria Police and the Prejudice Motivated Crime Strategy

Part III: The Research

5. Is It All in the Name? Changing Terminologies, Community Perceptions of Police and Willingness to Report Hate Crime

6. Training Police on Prejudice Motivated Crime (with Toby Miles-Johnson)

7. The Prejudice Motivated Crime Strategy and Hate Crime Reporting (with Kathryn Benier)

8. Identification: The Markers of Prejudice Motivated Crime

Part IV: Conclusion

9. Conclusion: Deep Diving

References

Index

Gail Mason is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sydney

JaneMaree Maher is Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Sociology at Monash University

Jude McCulloch is Professor of Criminology at Monash University

Sharon Pickering is Professor of Criminology at Monash University

Rebecca Wickes is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University

Carolyn McKay lectures in criminal law, procedure and the legal profession at the University of Sydney