The Scottish Government

Background Papers

There are a wide variety of papers from a range of sources available on the issues of hate crime and crime committed because of social prejudice. The working group used these papers to inform its thinking about the group's work. Links to a selection of relevant external websites and papers are below. Some of these papers are in PDF format and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them. You can download the programme from the Adobe website.

• "Give us a break": exploring harassment of people with mental health problems, National Schizophrenic Fellowship (NSF) Scotland research (2001). This research can also be found on the NSF Scotland website.
• "The Experience of Violence and Harassment of Gay Men in the City of Edinburgh" by Colin Morrison and Andrew Mackay, the TASC Agency (1999)
• "The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Guide to Identifying and Combating Hate Crime" by ACPO (2000); (Hate Crime Manual)
• "Racist Crime and Victimisation in Scotland" by Sue Moody and Ian Clark, University of Dundee (2002)
• "A Policymaker's Guide to Hate Crimes" by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice (1999)
• "An Acceptable Prejudice? Homophobic Violence and Harassment in Northern Ireland" by Neil Jarman and Alex Tennant, Institute for Conflict Research (2003)