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This chapter highlights the originality, significance and need for this book by referring to the rising levels of hate and extremism both online and offline, the physical, emotional and community-level harms associated with hate crimes, and to the growing scepticism towards the concept of hate crime and ignorance of the harms associated with it.
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Hardy, SJ., Chakraborti, N. (2020). Increasing Problems, Increasing Indifference. In: Blood, Threats and Fears. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31997-7_1
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