Gypsies and Travellers experience of harm: A critical hate studies perspective
This paper sets out how a critical hate studies perspective can explain and illuminate the hate harms experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in the UK.
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In doing so, it directly responds to the question of how criminological theory can move beyond existing debates in studies of race and ethnicity and engage more effectively with the wider social sciences.
Speaker Bios
Zoë James is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Plymouth, UK. Through the 1990s, she worked for the Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, where she ndertook research on a wide range of criminal justice issues. She completed her PhD at the University of Surrey, on the policing of Travellers, and joined Plymouth University in 1999.