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The Victim–Offender Relationship in Transphobic Hate Crime

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Transphobic Hate Crime

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The victim–offender relationship is important to discern from the crime scene actions in order to identify whether they were known to the victim or not and their motivations for the attack. This is to assist in the identification of the offender(s) in order to achieve justice for the victim. However, homicides or physical and sexual acts of violence are not always recorded as transphobic or motivated by transgender hate crime bias. There has thus far been very limited research conducted on hate crime offenders. Nevertheless, a typology of hate crime has been developed and will be discussed here. In addition, the characteristics of the offenders and victims are also examined together with the police response to victims to further contextualise the nature of transphobic crime.

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Jamel, J. (2018). The Victim–Offender Relationship in Transphobic Hate Crime. In: Transphobic Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57879-8_4

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