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    The need for new tools to break the silos: identity categories in hate speech legislation

    Neller, Jen (2018) The need for new tools to break the silos: identity categories in hate speech legislation. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7 (2), pp. 75-90. ISSN 2202-8005.

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    Abstract

    The implications of specifying certain identity categories have been widely debated in the context of hate crime laws and policies. However, they have been less thoroughly examined in the particular contexts of hate speech. Although the majority of laws regulating speech do not differentiate between identity categories, the ‘stirring up’ offences of the United Kingdom Public Order Act 1986 are stratified along grounds of race, religion and sexual orientation. This article argues that, while the concerns raised about identity categories in relation to hate crime legislation are equally relevant to the stirring up provisions, the proposed solutions cannot automatically be transposed to hate speech offences. Accordingly, this article explores challenges that are encountered in attempts to make hate crime and hate speech legislation more inclusive before advancing some tentative suggestions for how hate speech laws might move beyond identity silos.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Hate speech, hate crime, legislative reform, identity, vulnerability
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
    Depositing User: Jen Neller
    Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2020 10:41
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:04
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40964

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