Hidden targets, hidden harms: community safety and sexual minority communities
Hidden targets, hidden harms: community safety and sexual minority communities
This paper focuses on the social and political climate in which the emphasis on concepts such as community safety, community cohesion and social exclusion is currently being expanded, in order to accommodate to the recent developments in England and Wales in which hate crimes, whether racially motivated or a result of homophobia, are increasingly being taken seriously by local authorities and police forces in England and Wales. It is within this context that social detachment, non-participation in ‘civic culture’, and a lack of confidence in government and in the police are seen as being social problems that must be resolved through confidence-building, consultation and encouraging participation, especially in relation to minority communities. The main focus of the paper is devoted to exploring the special place of hate crime in the expanding conceptual landscape of the ‘community safety’ ethos following the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, with particular attention being paid to homophobic and transphobic incidents.
community safety, hate crime, homophobia, multi-agency, harm
27-40
McGhee, Derek
63b8ae1e-8a71-470c-b780-2f0a95631902
October 2003
McGhee, Derek
63b8ae1e-8a71-470c-b780-2f0a95631902
McGhee, Derek
(2003)
Hidden targets, hidden harms: community safety and sexual minority communities.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 5 (4), .
(doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8140160).
Abstract
This paper focuses on the social and political climate in which the emphasis on concepts such as community safety, community cohesion and social exclusion is currently being expanded, in order to accommodate to the recent developments in England and Wales in which hate crimes, whether racially motivated or a result of homophobia, are increasingly being taken seriously by local authorities and police forces in England and Wales. It is within this context that social detachment, non-participation in ‘civic culture’, and a lack of confidence in government and in the police are seen as being social problems that must be resolved through confidence-building, consultation and encouraging participation, especially in relation to minority communities. The main focus of the paper is devoted to exploring the special place of hate crime in the expanding conceptual landscape of the ‘community safety’ ethos following the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, with particular attention being paid to homophobic and transphobic incidents.
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Published date: October 2003
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community safety, hate crime, homophobia, multi-agency, harm
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Local EPrints ID: 39670
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/39670
ISSN: 1460-3780
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