Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability

A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8400758
AutoresMarta-Marika Urbanik, Marta‐marika Urbanik (0000-0002-5669-7789, University of Alberta, autor de correspondencia), Katharina Maier (0000-0002-0678-2854, University of Winnipeg), J E C Tetrault (0000-0002-1580-8550, University of Alberta), Carolyn Greene (0000-0003-4073-4263, Athabasca University)
Año2024
Volumen64
Número4
Páginas863-880
Fecha de publicación2024-07-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azad065
OpenAlexW4389014308
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas58

Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremism, representing a broader trend in Westernized countries for responding to social issues through anti-hate policies. Can these approaches protect unhoused people? Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and observation with 50 unhoused community members in a Canadian city, we outline their experiences with anti-homeless and anti-Indigenous violence. Our findings show how hate crime approaches often (1) fail to consider intersectionality, especially how class contributes to vulnerability, and (2) overlook place-based victimization and how institutions enable class vulnerability. We call for more localized analyses of hate crime and introduce the concept of ‘cumulative risk of hate crime victimization’ to help address intersectionality

Class (philosophy) · Computer security · Criminology · Ethnography · Hate crime · Indigenous · Intersectionality · Political science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing) · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues