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LGB&T hate crime reporting: identifying barriers and solutions
- Authors:
- CHAKRABORTI Neil, HARDY Stevie-Jade
- Publisher:
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 33
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Findings from a programme of tailored work with LGBT communities in Leicester and Leicestershire aimed at encouraging greater levels of hate crime reporting. This report has been structured to outline LGBT people’s experiences and expectations of hate crime reporting, and to provide best practice guidance. Over the course of three months the project team engaged with hundreds of people from LGBT communities and conducted in-depth interviews with 50 people. Verbal abuse, intimidation and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity were identified as regular experiences within the context of many participants’ everyday lives. The findings reveal that many participants were unaware of and unfamiliar with reporting pathways and decisions about whether to report hate crime were found to be influenced by several factors, including the normalisation of ‘everyday’ victimisation, concerns about being ‘outed’, a lack of awareness, and an inability to see how reporting benefits the victim or the police. The report sets out best practice guidance, aimed at: identifying the specific support needs of LGBT communities; using more extensive methods of engagement with LGBT communities; developing positive campaigns to encourage LGBT hate crime victims to report; producing hate crime awareness campaigns which connect with people more effectively; locating third-party reporting centres in more appropriate locations; tailoring reporting pathways to meet the needs of a specific group or community; making reporting procedures more victim-friendly; allowing victims and witnesses to report hate crime anonymously; providing regular updates about investigations; and offering the option of an independent advocate. (Edited publisher abstract)
Public authority commitment and action to eliminate targeted harassment and violence
- Authors:
- CHAKRABORTI Neil, et al
- Publisher:
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 145p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This study investigates what public authorities (including the Police, Probation, Local Authorities, Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and Passenger Transport Executives) in Britain are doing to eliminate targeted harassment directed at people on the grounds of disability, gender and race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgendered status. An online survey was developed to enable public authorities in England, Scotland and Wales to self-report their actions and received a total of 213 completed responses. The survey was supplemented by detailed qualitative interviews with a small sample of authorities. Key findings are discussed in the following areas: policy and action planning; prevention; reporting targeted harassment; recording targeted harassment; helping victims of targeted harassment; and working with perpetrators of targeted harassment. The report also looks at whether the right support, guidance and training is available and priorities for moving forward to meet the public sector equality duty.