The Centre for Hate Studies

Just a reminder that this year’s Annual Scarman Lecture 2022 entitled “Preventing equal participation. How the government’s Prevent strategy undermines democracy.” will take place on Wednesday 28 September 2022 from 17:00 via Teams Live. To get your free ticket please click below:

Scarman Lecture 2022: PREVENT, preventing equal participation Scarman lecture 2022: Preventing equal participation. How the government’s Prevent strategy undermines democracy.

For the first time ever, victims, academics, support organisations and elements of the criminal justice system will meet to discuss the impact of disability hate crime at the world's first Disability Hate Crime conference, here at the University of Leicester and online.

👉https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/disability-hate-crime

Why not join the Violence Reduction Information Network Team's next webinar which is taking place tomorrow from 16:00 on “The evaluation jungle. How should we be evaluating interventions to reduce public place violence?”. For your free ticket click below:

How should we be evaluating interventions to reduce public space violence? In this session we turn to thinking about the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce public place violence.

Difficult Conversations | Centenary events | University of Leicester

How can we support the victims of hate crime? Why do these attacks happen, and what forms do they take? Professor Neil Chakraborti explores the issues.

👉 https://citizen.le.ac.uk/podcast/harms-of-hate-the-trauma-of-being-different/ 👈

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Dr Amy Clarke, Research Fellow at the University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies, addresses how this year’s National Hate Crime Awareness Week gives us an opportunity to acknowledge and respond to a crisis of social relations.

👉 https://citizen.le.ac.uk/blog/crisis-social-relations/ 👈

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Why not join us for this year’s Annual Scarman Lecture 2021 entitled “Drugs & the Criminal Justice System in the UK”? It will take place on Wednesday 29 September 2021 from 17:00 via Teams. To get your free ticket please click below:

Annual Scarman lecture 2021: Drugs & the Criminal Justice System in the UK This year’s Scarman Lecture is an opportunity to discuss Drugs and Criminal Justice in the UK in 2021 with the experts.

Everyone within the Centre for Hate Studies wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Listen to interview hosted by Professor Neil Chakraborti about the 10-year anniversary of Fiona Pilkington’s and her disabled daughter’s death after being tormented by youths. Trigger Warning https://youtube.com/watch?v=s0Li8Rt-VRk

Disability Hate Crime Professor Neil Chakraborti from the University of Leicester's Department of Criminology comments on how authorities share information on disability hate crime.

New research from a carers organisation finds less than 2% of disability hate crime lead to charge or summons:

New research finds less than 2% of disability hate crime lead to charge or summons Less than 2% of disability hate crimes in England and Wales result in a criminal charge, charities have found. Research by Leonard Cheshire and United Response found that 7,333 such