ABSTRACT

The family campaign and subsequent public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence raised awareness and concern about the prevalence and nature of racist attacks in the UK, as well as the impact of these offences on victims and wider communities. This chapter focuses on practitioner experience in London specifically and on the emerging landscape to establish how far the lessons learned with race hate perpetrators can apply to other forms of hate. In Greenwich, offenders go to the Racial Attack Monitoring Unit to meet staff working with victims and are confronted with an emotive photo collage illustrating the cost of racial hatred. The chapter concludes with reiterating again the importance of working together with other criminal justice and community agencies, faith based and victims groups to find ways to reach people, whose attitudes and behaviours create harm to victims.