Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially About Racially Motivated Crime (Explorations in Psycho-social Studies) - Softcover

Gadd, David; Dixon, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855757931 ISBN 13: 9781855757936

Verlag: Routledge, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it is that some people, and not others, feel inclined to attack immigrants and minority ethnic groups. The relationships between ordinary racism, racial harassment and the politics of the British National Party are also explored, as are the enduring impacts of deindustrialisation, economic failure and immigration on white working class communities. The book assesses the legacy of New Labour policy on community cohesion, hate crime and respect in terms of its impact on racist attitudes and racist incidents, and explores how it is that racist attacks, including racist murders, continue to happen.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dixon, Bill

David Gadd is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Manchester University Law School.
Bill Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Head of the School of Sociology and Criminology at Keele University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1855757931
• ISBN 13: 9781855757936
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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