Centre for Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes

Centre for Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes

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About the Centre

The Nottingham Centre for Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice was founded in 2003 by Dr Mike Sutton, and has since established itself as a key authority on hate crimes through the contributions and research made by its members since its inception.

Between 2003 and 2005, the Centre ran three annual international hate crime conferences and built strong networks among academics and practitioners, establishing itself while providing impetus in the field. Since 2005, members of the Centre have been invited to and presented papers at key symposiums and events such as the Hate Crime Symposium in Cardiff (2012), Glasgow Anti-Racist Alliance Conference (2009), the International Conference, Law and Society in the 21st Century in Berlin, Germany (2007), and the European Society of Criminology Conference in Krakow, Poland (2005). Meanwhile the director of the Centre, Dr Mike Sutton was the key-note speaker at the Second International Conference on Hate Crimes in Boston (2005) where he discussed 'Preventing Hate Crimes’.

Academic team

The centre has a core of research-active staff including Dr Mike Sutton, Dr Paul Hamilton, Dr Loretta Trickett, and Roger Hopkins Burke. In addition to this, the highly esteemed Dr Barbara Perry (Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada), is a visiting professor and frequent collaborator for the Centre.

In 2011, Dr Paul Hamilton joined the Hate Crime Academic Seminar group, which sought to bring together academics and practitioners from across the UK, to discuss the current evidence base for Hate Crime with the UK, identify new areas of study and existing or potential gaps in our collective knowledge and represented the Centre’s commitment to developing knowledge in the field.

This seminar group has since been replaced by the International Network for Hate Studies which will be hosting its first meeting in Birmingham on 2 May 2013, with Dr Trickett being invited to be a Committee Member and Dr Paul Hamilton currently awaiting consideration for membership.

Dr Paul Hamilton and Dr Loretta Trickett also sit on two Nottinghamshire steering groups – the Hate Crime Steering Group and the Hate Crime Steering Group which has responsibility for coordinating hate crime strategy and research at city and county level. Members include representatives from the Police, Council, PCT, Strategic Analytical Unit (SAU), CPS, Magistrates & Stop Hate UK.

Developing knowledge across the sector

The Centre for Study and Reduction of Hate Crime Bias and Prejudice also has strong ties to the Internet Journal of Criminology, which has published several papers of members, developed out of the three Nottingham Trent University held International Hate Crime Conferences (2003-2005).

These papers covered topics including:

Anti-Semitism and the Christian Right in post-Miloševic Serbia by Jovan Byford
Interactive Race and Gender Differences: Models of Bias by Dr Dyan McGuire, St Louis University, USA
Where Do We Go From Here? Researching Hate Crime by Barbara Perry, Northern Arizona University
Bulldog Whistling: Criminalization of Young Lebanese-Australian Rugby League Fans
The German Hate Crime Concept: An Account of the Classification and Registration of Bias-Motivated Offences and the
Implementation of the Hate Crime Model Into Germany's Law Enforcement System
Researching White Supremacists Online: Methodological Concerns of Researching Hate 'Speech'

For extracts and to download the full papers please visit the Internet Journal of Criminology.

A full list of publications and papers by the members of the Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice can be found on the publications tab.