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Last broadcast on Mon, 13 Sep 2010, 00:15 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
When is a crime a 'hate crime', and what does that term actually mean? How has living on what other people throw away become a subject for criminologists? Laurie explores some of the latest ideas on crime as he visits the British Society of Criminology Conference held this year at Leicester University. He hears from the film maker Rex Bloomstein, from Sylvia Lancaster whose daughter Sophie was murdered because of the way she looked, from Jon Garland, Senior Lecturer in Crimilogy, University of Leicester, and also from Jeff Ferrell, the Professor of Criminology from the United States who has been living out of dumpsters, skips, rubbish bins in an attempt to understand an increasingly criminalised and marginalised way of life.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.
Sylvia Lancaster
Sylvia’s daughter Sophie was murdered because of the way she looked. The charity, known as The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, was set up and it “focuses on creating respect for and understanding of subcultures in our communities”.
Jon Garland
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Leicester
Hate Crime: Impact, Causes, and Consequences
Jon Garland and Neil Chakraborti
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN-10: 1412945682
ISBN-13: 978-1412945684
Rex Bloomstein
Film maker, whose work includes 'Kids behind Bars' 'Strangeways' and 'Lifers'.
Jeff Ferrell
Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Texas Christian University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Kent
Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN-10: 0814727387
ISBN-13: 978-0814727386
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Wed 8 Sep 201016:00
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Mon 13 Sep 201000:15



