Webinar 72/2016 Hate crime: encouraging reporting and ensuring recording of bias motivated incidents

Aims

• discuss how hate crimes can be identified in practice, thereby ensuring that bias motives are taken into account in the investigation;
• raise awareness of the reasons why victims of hate crime often do not report the most serious cases of violence, and what can be done to build victims’ trust and to encourage reporting;
• introduce participants to different areas of hate crime, such as anti-semitism.