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‘A crime is a crime is a crime’ was how Dame Jill Knight MP, member of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, responded to Michael Howard, the Home Secretary, when he argued that racial attacks should not be made a specific offence in law. Proof of racial motivation is too difficult a criterion for successful prosecution and, so he argued, it is better to deal with violence and criminal damage as just that, taking any evidence of racial motivation into account when sentence is passed. Racial attack and harassment are in essence like any other crime – for Michael Howard ‘a crime is a crime is a crime’ (House of Commons, 1994, p. 66).
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© 1996 Simon Holdaway
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Holdaway, S. (1996). Racial attack in Britain. In: The Racialisation of British Policing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24481-2_3
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