• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Effect of the Brexit Vote on the Variation in Race and Religious Hate Crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
  • Contributor: Williams, Matthew [VerfasserIn]; Sutherland, Andrew [VerfasserIn]; Roy-Chowdhury, Vivek [VerfasserIn]; Loke, Thomas [VerfasserIn]; Cullen, Alison [VerfasserIn]; Sloan, Luke [VerfasserIn]; Burnap, Pete [VerfasserIn]; Giannasi, Paul [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: 2023
  • Published in: The British journal of criminology ; 63(2023), 4, Seite 1003-1023
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azac071
  • ISSN: 1464-3529
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  • Keywords: hate crime ; Brexit ; race ; religion ; European Union
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  • Footnote: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1022-1023
  • Description: This paper examines possible mechanisms behind the spike in racially or religiously-aggravated (RR) offences after the Brexit vote. It adds to the current literature in five significant ways: (1) it provides the first Brexit-related RR hate crime comparison between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; (2) it reports on results from a national-level panel model that adds to the debate in the literature on whether pro-leave or pro-remain areas saw greater increases hate crimes; (3) it assesses the role of demographic characterises on the variation in hate crime; (4) it compares the effect of the vote with other ‘trigger events’; and (5) it uses social media data to control for variation in hate crime victim and witness reporting.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)