Bridging the gap between research and policy, this book provides new perspectives on the nature of hate crime victimisation and perpetration.

Introduction and Overview ~ Neil Chakraborti;
Part One: Working Together: Developing Shared Perspectives;
The adventures of an accidental academic in 'policy-land': a personal reflection on bridging academia, policing and government in a hate crime context ~ Nathan Hall;
Academia from a practitioner's perspective: a reflection on the changes in the relationship between academia, policing and government in a hate crime context ~ Paul Giannasi;
Reshaping hate crime policy and practice: lessons from a grassroots campaign ~ an interview with Sylvia Lancaster, founder of the
Sophie Lancaster Foundation;
Not getting away with it: linking sex work and hate crime in Merseyside ~ Rosie Campbell;
Evidencing the case for hate crime ~ Joanna Perry;
Part Two: Researching Key Issues: Emerging Themes and Challenges;
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities to shape hate crime policy ~ Marian Duggan;
Using a 'layers of influence' model to understand the interaction of research, policy and practice in relation to disablist hate crime ~ Chih Hoong Sin;
Responding to the needs of victims of Islamophobia ~ Irene Zempi;
Controlling the new far right on the streets: policing the English Defence League in policy and praxis ~ James Treadwell;
Developing themes on young people, everyday multiculturalism and hate crime ~ Stevie-Jade Hardy;
Hate crime against students: recent developments in research, policy and practice ~ Lucy Michael;
We need to talk about women: examining the place of gender in hate crime policy ~ Hannah Mason-Bish;
Part Three: Challenging Prejudice: Combating Hate Offending;
Courage in the Face of Hate: a curricular resource for confronting anti-LGBTQ violence ~ Barbara Perry and D. Ryan Dyck;
Policing prejudice motivated crime: a research case study ~ Gail Mason, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher;
Policing hate against Gypsies and Travellers: dealing with the dark side ~ Zoë James;
Understanding how 'hate' hurts: a case study of working with offenders and potential offenders ~ Paul Iganski, with Karen Ainsworth, Laura Geraghty, Spyridoula Lagou, and Nafysa Patel;
Restorative approaches to working with hate crime offenders ~ Mark Austin Walters;
Conclusions ~ Jon Garland.