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Abstract

In England and Wales, hate crime policy and the study of hate crime in academia, has been dominated by a single-stranded approach based on five protected social identities. In contrast to this separatist stance, intersectionality is a form of complex critical analysis concerned with how the overlapping of social identities interrelates with social structures of oppression, power, and privilege. This dissertation utilises intersectionality as a framework and analytical tool to critically explore the experiences of people who are transgender and disabled, in the context of hate crime in England and Wales.

The dissertation has a bipartite methodology consisting of a narrative literature review, followed by secondary analysis with a critical intersectional approach. One overarching theme emerges from the resulting qualitative data: the marginalisation and repression of trans disabled people from the production of knowledge about hate crime.

The findings of this dissertation demonstrate that the use of intersectionality within research design and methodology, results in deeper knowledge of disabled trans people’s experiences of hate crime than simply assuming silo-based research of disablist and transphobic hate crime accurately represents them. This has implications for the study of hate crime, particularly by challenging how the production of knowledge is approached. This dissertation calls for hate crime scholars across disparate disciplines to question the inclusivity of their research design, and work together to contest the exclusionary, silo-based approach to hate crime studies and policy, that often overlooks disabled trans victims.

Course: Criminal Justice - MSc - C2681F

Date Deposited: 2023-05-11

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