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Understanding and Debating the Concept of ‘Hate Crime’

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In this opening chapter of analysis, I reconsider foundational debates concerning the meaning of hate crime, yet do so within the everyday lives of disabled people. As I have discussed earlier in the text, the concept of hate crime has been subject to ongoing debate in the pursuit to develop a more consistent definition. These critical conversations have been fruitful to developing discussion and raising awareness about the issue of hate crime. However, they have also been fraught with contradictions, disagreements, and complexities as the myriad of disciplinary agendas, values, and time-frames have been in friction with one another. Thus, this opening chapter of analysis explores some of these conceptual ambiguities by considering the different ways that participants made sense of hate crime in relation to their own experiences.

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Burch, L. (2021). Understanding and Debating the Concept of ‘Hate Crime’. In: Understanding Disability and Everyday Hate. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86818-5_4

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