Healing Harms and Engendering Tolerance: The Promise of Restorative Justice for Hate Crime

In N. Chakraborti (ed) Hate Crime: Concepts, policy, future directions. Willan Publishing. 2010

12 Pages Posted: 24 Jul 2014

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Mark Walters

University of Sussex Law School

Carolyn Hoyle

University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research

Date Written: July 22, 2014

Abstract

Hate crime scholars have spent the best part of twenty years investigating the prevalence of hate crime, its aetiological determinants, the harms it causes, and how - within a democratic and diverse society – it could be diminished or eradicated (Herek & Berrill 1992; McDevitt & Levin 1993; Jacobs & Potter 1998; Lawrence 1999; Perry 2001; Iganksi 2008). Yet within the ‘hate debate’ there has been little attention paid to the potential efficacy of restorative justice. This chapter explores whether restorative justice practices (henceforth RJ) might have the potential to help to repair the harms caused by acts of hatred. It draws upon theoretical and empirical research on both hate crime and RJ and proffers some tentative observations from the early stage of a three-year empirical study into RJ and hate crime being carried out by the first author.

Keywords: Hate crime, restorative justice, community mediation

Suggested Citation

Walters, Mark Austin and Hoyle, Carolyn, Healing Harms and Engendering Tolerance: The Promise of Restorative Justice for Hate Crime (July 22, 2014). In N. Chakraborti (ed) Hate Crime: Concepts, policy, future directions. Willan Publishing. 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470079

Mark Austin Walters (Contact Author)

University of Sussex Law School ( email )

Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QN
United Kingdom

Carolyn Hoyle

University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research ( email )

12 Bevington Road
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6LH
United Kingdom

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