'Hate crime' and the city -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A victim-centred approach to conceptualising 'hate crime' -- Conceptual disarray of the notion of 'hate crime' -- 'Hate crime' as a scholarly domain -- The harms of 'hate crime' -- From extreme to everyday 'hate crime' -- From the background to the foreground of 'hate crime' -- Conclusion: situating the victim at the centre of 'hate crime' -- 2. The normality of everyday 'hate crime' -- The commonalities of everyday 'hate crime' -- Structure, action, agency and everyday 'hate crime' -- Conclusion: the significance of the situational dynamics of 'hate crime' -- 3. The spatial dynamics of everyday 'hate crime' -- London: capital of diversity -- London: capital of 'hate crime' -- Inter-group friction and 'race-hate crime' -- Power differentials and 'race-hate crime' -- The geography of everyday 'hate crime' -- Defended neighbourhoods -- The political economy of 'hate crime' -- Conclusion: life in the city and everyday 'hate crime' -- 4. Tensions in liberalism and the criminalisation of 'hate' -- How 'hate crimes' hurt more -- Punishing 'hate crime' offenders for their bad values -- Everyday 'hate crime' and the declaratory value of 'hate crime' laws -- Conclusion: legislating morality -- 5. Including victims of 'hate crime' in the criminal justice policy process -- 'Race-hate' crime and multi-agency working in the European Union -- Multi-agency working and victims of 'race-hate crime' in the UK -- 'Race-hate crime' and multi-agency cooperation city-wide in London -- The 'silo-approach' to 'hate crime' -- Conclusion: lessons from the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum -- 6. Conclusions: understanding everyday 'hate crime' -- A victim-centred approach to understanding 'hate crime' offending -- 'Hate crime' and the criminologies of everyday life.

'Hate crime', human rights and 'the state' -- Appendix A. The UK's 'hate crime' laws -- England and Wales -- Scotland -- Northern Ireland -- Appendix B. The process of 'hate crime' -- Appendix C. Controversy about the extent of the anti-Muslim backlash following the July 2005 London bombings -- Appendix D. Ethnic group composition of the London boroughs (2001 Census) -- Appendix E. Black and Asian minority ethnic (BME) group population proportions and diversity scores for the London boroughs (1991 and 2001) -- Appendix F. Methodology of the evaluation of the London-wide Race Hate Crime Forum -- References -- Index.