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LGBT People as Victims of Crime

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This describes the experiences of LGBT people as victims of crime in the UK. Whilst there is an emerging knowledge base in the field of hate crime, it is important to recognise that LGBT people can also be victims of other sorts of crime and that their identity as LGBT may or may not be an issue in this. The failure, as a practitioner in the system, to even consider the identity of the victim, may well mean that significant information about the impact of the crime on that person is missed. Some of the available research evidence highlights the reluctance to report and the impact of hate crime in particular on the lives of the victims, their families and their communities that can often be far reaching. The responses of a range of services and organisations in the CJS to the needs of LGBT victims are explored.

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    Charlotte Knight & Kath Wilson

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Knight, C., Wilson, K. (2016). LGBT People as Victims of Crime. In: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People (LGBT) and the Criminal Justice System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49698-0_4

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