Blood, Threats and Fears by Stevie-Jade Hardy & Neil Chakraborti

Author:Stevie-Jade Hardy & Neil Chakraborti
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030319977
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

When respondents were asked about which features of their identity made them concerned about being targeted again in the future, two-thirds referred to more than one identity or lifestyle characteristic (64 per cent). This could be indicative of the prejudice and hostility which is woven into the fabric of everyday life and which contributes to minority groups feeling especially conscious about a particular aspect of their identity or ‘difference’. Importantly, those respondents who reported being targeted on the basis of more than one variable were more likely to say that their experience had had a significant impact upon their quality of life.

The findings from this body of research challenge conventional ideas regarding which victim groups or identity and lifestyle characteristics should be considered relevant to hate crime policy. 17 per cent of respondents felt that they had been targeted on the basis of their gender; 14 per cent their age; 7 per cent their social status; 6 per cent their mental ill-health; 5 per cent their alternative or subcultural status; 3 per cent their Gypsy/Traveller roots; and 2 per cent their asylum seeker or refugee status. The experiences of some of the more marginalised groups of hate crime victims—such as asylum seekers and refugees, English and European Roma Gypsies, the homeless and those who have mental ill-health or are economically disadvantaged—and of those targeted on the basis of having unfamiliar (in the context of hate crime policy) visual identity markers—such as age, gender or alternative subcultural status—bore all the hallmarks of the more recognised hate crime victim groups.I was morbidly obese for most of my life … I never had any physical abuse; it’s verbal and just blanking you, ignoring you. People pointed at me in shopping centres and people would say mean things, clearly within earshot, so I could hear it. And it makes you feel like you’re not worth the same as other people.

Caroline, targeted on the basis of her body shape

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