Racists as victims of hate crime: the vulnerability account
Victim-centered accounts of hate crime One of the main issues debated when it comes to hate crime is about its victim: Who are the victims of hate crimes? This can be taken as an empirical question...
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Deterrence and rehabilitation
A suitable mode of thinking when it comes to legal punishment is in terms of functions. What functions are punishments supposed to perform? Let’s restrict this discussion to prison sentences for now,...
View ArticleHate and Harm
The justification of punishment Ok, short background: The traditional justification of punishment is based on two not entirely independent considerations: Wrongdoing and Culpability. There are other...
View ArticleOn extreme and everyday hatred
The locus of the problem In policy documents and in the scholarly literature, the idea recurs that the contemporary problem with xenophobia and racism is not primarily located in extremist acts of...
View ArticleThe limitations of the ‘more speech’ solution
On the 25th of november the youth wing of the swedish social democratic party held an action they called ”nätfight” (”net-fight”). The idea was, for this day at least, not to let all the xenophobic...
View ArticleA note on antipathy and phobias
Bah! Semantics! It would seem that semantics is the least interesting aspects of things like islamophobia and antisemitism. This may well be the case, but if you’ve ever happened to investigate into...
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Notes on a scandal
For the last few days, a police scandal has been dominating swedish media. The scandal concerns a file including a very large number of people of mainly Roma origin which the press calls an ”ethnic...
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The When Law and Hate Collide Radio Documentary
At the fourth meeting of the research project ”When Law and Hate Collide”, which took place in Brussels in 2012, we recorded a radio documentary. It features the project members Michael Salter, Kim...
View ArticleSome hate crimes are worse than others
A tale of two hate crimes Imagine that I am physically assaulted on my way to work because of my membership in some of the groups to which I belong. The white, the middle-class, academics, the...
View ArticleCharleston – on hate crimes, terrorism and oppression
First, there are two initial question regarding how to categorize this event: Was it a hate crime? And was it an act of terrorism? The answer seems to be straightforwardly ”yes” to both. Statements...
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