Hate Crime on the Two Islands

In this final pre-recorded episode of the series, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by Kate Belbin, who is a Restorative Justice practitioner and partnership manager at Sussex Police, Alex Hyatt, a Restorative Services Delivery Officer for Sussex Police and Darren Coventry-Howlett, who is a police sergeant and Interfaith Hate & Extremism Response Project Lead at 'Safe Haven'. Together, they ask the question: 'what alternative justice measures should be used to address the problem of hate crime?', looking specifically at what criminal justice systems can do to address hate crime beyond the enforcement of criminal law and the punishments that are attached to proscribed offences.

In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by guest Professor James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and co-author of the report on hate crime law for the Scottish government entitled 'A Comparative Analysis of Hate Crime Legislation'. They delve into what types, models and legal tests are best suited to tackling hate crime in law, and ask "what frameworks work best when legislating for hate crime?".

In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe ask the very important question of "who should be protected in hate crime legislation?". They are joined in this discussion by Professor Amanda Haynes, Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Limerick and co-director of the European Centre for the Study of Hate and Martin Wimpole, lawyer at the Law Commission for England and Wales and a lead author on their 2020 consultation paper entitled Hate Crime Laws.

In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by Professor Neil Chakraborti, Director of the Centre for Hate Studies and a Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminology at the University of Leicester, and Dr Barbara Perry, Professor in Social Science and Humanities and Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Ontario Tech University, where they discuss and examine the question: what is a hate crime?

A short introduction to the podcast, Hate Crime on the Two Islands, with hosts Prof Mark Walters and Prof Jennifer Schweppe, produced by Mark Walters, Jennifer Schweppe and Kate O'Donovan.