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Too Few Jews to Count? Police Monitoring of Hate Crime Against Jews in the United Kingdom

Lancaster University, p.iganski{at}lancaster.ac.uk

Despite its significance as a specific category of hate crime, anti-Jewish crime has received little attention in the scholarly literature on policing hate crime. Whereas hate crimes against Jews figure prominently in the annual hate crime statistics published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, there are no routinely published police data on anti-Jewish incidents in the United Kingdom. Given the concerns about a rise in anti-Semitism in Britain in recent years, this article expands on written and oral testimony provided by the author to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry Into Anti-Semitism. It illuminates the inadequacies in the police monitoring of, and use of data on, anti-Jewish incidents and discusses the shortcomings in the context of the value of hate crime data for police services.

Key Words: police recording • Jews • hate crime

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American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 51, No. 2, 232-245 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764207306055


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