New Book – The politics of anti-social behaviour and hate crime policy

A new book examined the socio-political context in which particular groups of victims had been prioritized by United Kingdom policy-makers, and considered the changing role and status of the victim in contemporary criminal justice discourses.

It explored how certain forms of victimization, or types of victims, had been targeted, focussing on anti-social behaviour and hate crime victims, and examined how such targeting had been used to further punitive political agendas.