UCF, a partner institution of the DHS National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center of Excellence, is kicking off its Homeland Security Seminar series this Spring 2022. As before, invited speakers will come from academia, government, think tanks/FFRDCs, NGOs and industry (both from technical fields and the social sciences).
This Friday our guest speaker is Dr. Neil Chakraborti is a Professor in Criminology and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester.
We welcome faculty, students, and all those within the homeland security enterprise; feel free to forward this invite to your colleagues and any other interested folks. You can find more information about prior and upcoming talks at seminar.findingthefanatic.com.
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NCITE Seminar Series Spring 2022
Neil Chakraborti
Professor
University of Leicester,
“The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims”
Friday, April 28, 2022
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
Zoom: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/92921913372?pwd=Si9qdGozR3lkZWl6bzYxekZ6MXlKZz09
Or watch online at seminar.findingthefanatic.com
Abstract: This seminar considers the relevance of hate crime in an age where the coalescence of multiple points of crisis has been used to legitimise and normalise targeted hostility. Within this context the need for improved support for victims of hate crime has rarely been more apparent, with numbers of incidents rising to unprecedented levels across many parts of the world. This sharp increase – and the associated normalisation of prejudice and ‘othering’ – casts doubt over the effectiveness of existing measures and their capacity to protect victims from the harms associated with hate crime.
Drawing from extensive engagement with more than 2,000 victims of hate crime, Professor Chakraborti identifies a series of failings in relation to dismantling barriers to reporting, prioritising meaningful engagement with diverse communities and delivering effective criminal justice interventions. In doing so, he illustrates how those failings exacerbate the sense of alienation felt by victims from a diverse range of backgrounds and communities, and compound the physical and emotional harms that victims will already have to contend with as part of the process of experiencing hate crime. Within this context he identifies ways in which academics, policy-makers, practitioners and activists can reach beyond their own echo chambers to connect with ‘real-world’ hate crime experiences, and calls for urgent action to plug the ever-widening chasm between state-level narratives and victims’ lived realities.
Bio: Neil Chakraborti is a Professor in Criminology and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester. He has published extensively within the field of hate crime and has been commissioned by numerous funding bodies including the ESRC, Amnesty International and the Equality and Human Rights Commission to lead research studies which have shaped hate crime policy and scholarship.
Neil is Chair of the Research Advisory Group at the Howard League for Penal Reform. series editor of Palgrave Hate Studies, an Associate Editor for Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a member of the ESRC’s Grant Assessment Panel. He holds a diverse range of advisory positions which include roles with the International Network for Hate Studies, the IARS International Institute, Oxford University Press, the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network, the Human Dignity Trust, BLM in the Stix and the Crown Prosecution Service.
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