title: Hate crimes hurt more: Can restorative practices help repair the harms?
abstract: The current retributive approach to tackling hate crime, while intuitively grounded in the principle of proportionately, does little to either repair the harms caused by incidents of hate or engender greater levels of acceptance of those deemed as “different”. This thesis therefore explores whether restorative justice, a relatively new theory and practice of criminal justice, is better placed to tackle the causes and consequences of hate victimisation.The 18 month empirical study, carried out to
journal: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)