Understanding and Tackling Barriers to Reporting Hate Crime: Evidence Review

Annex A: Search strategy

This annex provides information on inclusion criteria that was used during the search for existing literature on the barriers to reporting hate crime and strategies to tackle these barriers.

Country of origin: Scotland, UK

Publication types/sources:

• Academic journal articles.
• Government publications
• Non-governmental organisation publications (e.g. third sector and other stakeholder groups)

Databases searched:

• KandE (SG Library search platform which covers a range of databases)
• Idox
• KandE
• Knowledge Network
• Policy Commons
• ProQuest – duplicate results
• Google Custom Search
• Google Scholar

Organisational partners, such as the Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group, were also asked to suggest material and sources.