Losing the Race

Name: Losing the Race
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Thinking Psychosocially about Racially Motivated Crime

By: David Gadd, Bill Dixon

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Paperback | 31 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3

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Based on a two-year research project, 'Context and Motive in the Perpetration of Racially Motivated Violence and Harassment', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural, and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it is that some people, and not others, feel inclined to attack immigrants and minority ethnic groups. The relationships between ordinary racism, racial harassment, and the politics of the British National Party are also explored, as are the enduring impacts of deindustrialization, economic failure, and immigration on white working class communities.

The book assesses the legacy of New Labour policy on community cohesion, hate crime, and respect in terms of its impact on racist attitudes and racist incidents, and explores how it is that racist attacks, including racist murders, continue to happen. The book concludes by using psychoanalytically informed psychosocial concepts to explore examples of how and why race-thinking can be put aside, and what it is that needs to happen to get perpetrators to loosen or shed their emotional investments in hatred and violence.

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"This is an informative, contextualized account of the problem of racist offenses. There is much to be considered here... I believe this book contains detailed and useful information about the problem of racist hate crime from the perspective of the offender in one place in the world."-- (05/01/2011)

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