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Responses to Transphobic Hate Crime

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Transphobic Hate Crime

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In this penultimate chapter, the response to transphobic hate crime by charities, policy-makers and criminal justice agencies, such as the police and their specialist provision of dedicated police officers will be examined. Also highlighted are the limited resources of charities and police resulting in a needs-directed approach exacerbated by the extensive underreporting of transphobic hate crime which is a cause for concern. The lack of confidence in criminal justice agencies both in England and Wales and in the USA is a key contributing factor in this regard. This issue will be examined in conjunction with the methods introduced to improve reporting practices, for example, third-party reporting. This chapter will thus inform the final chapter’s recommendations on responses to transphobic hate crime.

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Jamel, J. (2018). Responses to Transphobic Hate Crime. In: Transphobic Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57879-8_5

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