The effect of the Brexit vote on the variation in race and religious hate crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Williams, M. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2566-6063, Sutherland, A., Roy-Chowdhury, V., Loke, T., Cullen, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9818-5247, Sloan, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9458-9332, Burnap, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0396-633X and Giannasi, P. 2023. The effect of the Brexit vote on the variation in race and religious hate crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society 63 (4) , pp. 1003-1023. 10.1093/bjc/azac071

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Abstract

This paper examines possible mechanisms behind the spike in racially or religiously-aggravated (RR) offences after the Brexit vote. It adds to the current literature in five significant ways: (1) it provides the first Brexit-related RR hate crime comparison between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; (2) it reports on results from a national-level panel model that adds to the debate in the literature on whether pro-leave or pro-remain areas saw greater increases hate crimes; (3) it assesses the role of demographic characterises on the variation in hate crime; (4) it compares the effect of the vote with other ‘trigger events’; and (5) it uses social media data to control for variation in hate crime victim and witness reporting.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0007-0955
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 October 2022
Date of Acceptance:	15 August 2022
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2024 02:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153093

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