Ebook Hate Crime or Gang Conflict? Violence Between Youth Groups in a Norwegian City
The notions of "racist violence" or "hate crime" mean that persons or their properties are attacked because they belong to certain categories of people. These concepts also usually imply that there is an asymmetric power relation between victim and perpetrator, and that one side is the aggressor, the other the victim. This perspective is important and indispensable. However, relying solely on this framework of interpretation may limit our understanding of other processes and perspectives that might also be highly relevant for understanding what is actually going on.
"Hate crime" has a wider scope than "racist violence"; it opens for a number of other categories of victims, and possibly also for other constellations between perpetrators and victims. The notion of hate crime also encompasses other sources of hatred or forms of justification for violence than racism/xenophobia alone.
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Ebook Hate Crime or Gang Conflict? Violence Between Youth Groups in a Norwegian City
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