Hate crime strategy

Sets out our key priorities for tackling hate crime and prejudice in Scotland. This strategy has been developed in partnership with our Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group and the voices of those with lived experience.


Footnotes

1. Independent Review of Hate Crime Legislation in Scotland, Final Report

2. See Commitment 3 for plans to renew and improve third party reporting structures.

3. Victim Support Scotland and Police Scotland Toolkit

4. See Chapter 4 for human-rights based approach.

5. Terms of Reference for the Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group

6. A full list of organisations that participated in lived experience engagement can be found at Appendix 1.

7. Life in Scotland for LGBT Young People 2022, LGBT Youth

8. Scottish Government response to the report of the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion

9. Independent Advisory Group report on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion

10. Tackling Prejudice and Building Connected Communities Action Plan: Implementation Overview

11. One Scotland: Hate Has No Home Here consultation

12. Specifically the 2016 recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

13. Police Recorded Hate Crime Characteristics, updated study

14. Savva Terentyev v. Russia – 10692/09 [2018]

15. Characteristics included in the Act are: age; disability; gender reassignment; pregnancy and maternity; marriage and civil partnership; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation.

16. Race Equality Framework for Scotland, 2016–2030

17. Developing National Anti-Racism Infrastructure Interim Governance Group

18. Improving the Lives of Scotland's Gypsy/ Travellers: 2019-2021

19. Anti-Racism in Education Programme

20. Non-Binary Equality Working Group: Report and Recommendations March 2022

21. The Scottish Government accepted the definition of intra-Christian sectarianism which was set out by The Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland

22. Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland Working Group

23. Equally Safe: Scotland's strategy to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls

24. Michael Masutha and William Rowland, Disabled People South Africa, 1993

25. Appendix 3

26. Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group: terms of reference

27. HMICS Thematic Inspection of Hate Crime

28. HMICS Thematic Inspection of Hate Crime

29. The Vision for Justice in Scotland

30. UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Concluding observations on the combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 3 October 2016, CERD/C/GBR/CO/21-23

31. Repeat Violent Victimisation Study, University of Glasgow

32. A Culture Strategy for Scotland

33. BEMIS facilitated multiple discussions on education and need for curriculum reform, in line with Concluding observations on the combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. BEMIS Scotland Tackling Hate Crime Conference Report 2019

34. Vision for Justice in Scotland: Evidence Supplement

35. Scottish Household Survey 2019: Key Findings

36. Harassment occurs where a person is subjected to unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic that violates their dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

37. Scottish Household Survey 2019: Key Findings

38. Scottish Household Survey 2019: Key Findings

39. McBride, M. (2016). A Review of the Evidence on Hate Crime and Prejudice – Report for the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion. SCCJR Research Report, 07/2016.

40. McBride, M. (2016). A Review of the Evidence on Hate Crime and Prejudice – Report for the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion. SCCJR Research Report, 07/2016.

41. McBride, M. (2016). A Review of the Evidence on Hate Crime and Prejudice – Report for the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion. SCCJR Research Report, 07/2016.

42. Kane, K. (2017) Fostering a Victim Centred Approach to Hate Crime in Scotland. Edinburgh: Victim Support Scotland.

43. Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland, Susan A. Batchelor, Sarah Armstrong and Donna MacLellan (2019); see also: Kane, K. (2017) Fostering a Victim Centred Approach to Hate Crime in Scotland. Edinburgh: Victim Support Scotland.

44. Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland, Susan A. Batchelor, Sarah Armstrong and Donna MacLellan (2019)

45. Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland, Susan A. Batchelor, Sarah Armstrong and Donna MacLellan (2019)

46. Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland, Susan A. Batchelor, Sarah Armstrong and Donna MacLellan (2019)

Contact

Email: connectedcommunities@gov.scot

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