Addressing Hate Crime and Incidents in Neoliberal Universities

An Examination of Universities’ Policies

Kahyeng Chai (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83662-687-9 (ISBN)

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While contemporary European universities are often imagined to be a forward-thinking environment fostering acceptance and inclusivity, universities can be crucial sites for the reproduction of oppression. As modern universities diversify, they increasingly become the first site where young people are confronted with diversity, leading to ignorant biases and, sometimes, targeted violence. In Addressing Hate Crime and Incidents in Neoliberal Universities: An Examination of Universities’ Policies, criminologist Kahyeng Chai takes readers on a behind-the-scenes examination of prejudice in modern higher education, covering numerous hot-button issues including sexism, islamophobia, racism, misogynoir, homophobia, and antisemitism.

Chai tackles this thorny topic through a thorough analysis of various national studies, news reports, and academic research, from the landmark study conducted by the National Union of Students in 2011 to the '2019 survey conducted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Despite laudable progress across the English higher education sector, a lack of clarity around reportable behaviours, understanding towards students’ experiences of racial harassment, and awareness among students of such policies means the extant policies have room for improvement. Chai, however, establishes a new, effective policy for addressing students’ experiences of hate crime and incidents, utilising an innovative new theoretical framework: institutional critical victimology.

Packed with fieldwork, policy analyses, and rock-solid next steps, Addressing Hate Crime and Incidents in Neoliberal Universities provides unique insights and guidance on how modern higher education institutions globally can learn, adapt, and grow in the modern era.

Kahyeng Chai is a researcher in the field of criminology with over six years of experience in the field, focusing on students’ experiences of hate crime and hate incidents. Kahyeng obtained a PhD from the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy', University of Leicester, UK.

Part 1. Context

Chapter 1. Understanding hate crime, hate incident, and microaggression

Chapter 2. English higher education sector: A public or private good?

Part 2. Framing the study

Chapter 3. Institutional critical victimology: A new theoretical framework

Chapter 4. Methodology

Part 3. Examining English universities’ policies

Chapter 5. Policy structure and content

Chapter 6. Policy discourses

Chapter 7. Power dynamics and agency of policy actors

Part 4. Way forward

Chapter 8. Defining policy effectiveness

Chapter 9. Potential of restorative justice

Chapter 10. Conclusion and recommendations

Erscheinungsdatum	11.06.2025
Verlagsort	Bingley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	393 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-83662-687-8 / 1836626878
ISBN-13	978-1-83662-687-9 / 9781836626879
Zustand	Neuware