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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2009
British Journal of Criminology 2009 49(6):755-771; doi:10.1093/bjc/azp046
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The British Journal of Criminology 49:755-771 (2009)
© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Aggravating Racism and Elusive Motivation

David Gadd*

* Dr, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG, UK; d.r.gadd{at}keele.ac.uk.


  Abstract

Since the implementation of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, courts in England and Wales have seen an increase in the number of racially aggravated charges brought before them. However, the extent to which racism is central, rather than ancillary to, the offences prosecuted under this law remains contested, both in individual legal cases and in criminological writing about hate and bias-motivated crime. Using the narrative accounts of one man convicted of perpetrating a racially aggravated assault, this article outlines how important it is to engage with the complexity of motivation as it is perceived by offenders and the necessity of developing analytic approaches capable of transcending what offenders say about their attitudes to race.

Key Words: racially aggravated crime • hate crime • racial motivation • crime and disorder act • psychosocial • psychoanalysis • practice


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