This book provides a unique insight into the lived realities of hate crime in Ireland and its treatment within the criminal justice system. The significance of the Irish case is contextualised within the European and global policy contexts and an overview of hate crime in Ireland, both north and south, and its differential treatment in each jurisdictions criminal justice system is offered. Presenting empirically grounded analyses of the experiences of commonly targeted identity groups in an Irish context, this study also draws upon their exposure to hate crime and challenges encountered in seeking redress. Combining theory, research and practice, this book represents legal, social, cultural and political concerns pertinent to understanding, preventing, deterring and combatting hate crime across Ireland. It incorporates a variety of perspectives on the hate crime paradigm and addresses many of the cutting-edge debates arising in the field of hate studies.Contributions from Irish and international academic researchers are complemented by applied pieces authored by practitioners and policy makers actively engaged with affected communities. This is a progressive and informed text which will be of great value to activists, policy makers and scholars of hate crime and criminal justice.

Amanda Haynes is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Jennifer Schweppe is lecturer in law at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Seamus Taylor is lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Section One: Contextualising the Significance of the Irish Case.- Chapter 1. The Disappearing of Hate Crime in the Irish Criminal Justice Process.- Chapter 2. Acknowledgement, Recognition and Response.- Chapter 3. Ireland in a Global Context.- Chapter 4. Ireland in Comparative Context.- Section Two: Targets of Hate.- Chapter 5. LGB and T?.- Chapter 6. Transphobic Hate Crime.- Chapter 7. Heteronormativity and the Inverted Relationship between Socio-Political and Legislative Approaches to LGB Hate Crime.- Chapter 8. Third Sector Responses to LGB Hate Crime.- Chapter 9. Hate Crime Legislation and Violence against Sex Workers in Ireland.- Chapter 10. The Challenge of Disabilist Hate Crime.- Chapter 11. People with Intellectual Disabilities.- Chapter 12. Hate Crime.- Chapter 13. Racist Hate Crime and Conceptions of Irish Homogeneity.- Chapter 14. Afrophobia.- Chapter 15. Combatting Racist Hate.- Chapter 16.Cycles of Violence.- Chapter 17. Anti-Traveller and Anti-Roma Hate Crime in Ireland.- Chapter 18. A Civil Society Perspective on Anti-Traveller and Anti-Roma Hate.- Section Three: Territorial Specificities, Global Challenges.- Chapter 19. Recording and Reporting Racist Hate Crime.- Chapter 20. Hate and the State.- Chapter 21. Policing Racism on the island of Ireland.- Chapter 22. Probation Practice and Offending Motivated by Hate and Discrimination.- Chapter 23. International Legal Frameworks for Hate Crime Laws.- Conclusions